Chapter 3- Sugar and Ice

Sakura walked down the hall towards the boys' bedroom to get her teammates up for breakfast, all the while going over the plans the she and Sasuke had concocted to get the blond to reveal his dark secrets.

They were geniuses! That's all there was to it. Their teammate was going to spill his whole life story by the time they were done with him!

Opening the door, she made her announcements: "Breakfast, guys. And Naruto, you had better get up now before I beat your ass! It's rude to be late."

The said blond yawned loudly as he pulled the blankets off his head to reveal he had slept with his goggles on. Sasuke got up as well and raised an eyebrow at the weird gesture of their teammate wearing his new found fashion sense with him to bed.

"You wore those things to bed?" the Uchiha found himself questioning.

Naruto nodded his head in a yes while yawning again and working the kinks out of his back. Without saying so much as a good morning, the hyperactive member of Team Seven left his bewildered teammates behind in favor of being the first one down to breakfast.

The moment the pink-haired girl and the ebony-haired boy got downstairs, they could hear Naruto wolfing down his food at speeds that were inhumanly possible.

Kakashi saved them the trouble of berating their teammate, all the while flipping a page in his book. "Naruto, I may not be a specialist in manners, but I do know that you're eating way too fast."

"Sorry sensei, but… I want to get done so I can train since… I couldn't yesterday!" he answered excitedly in between bites.

There was a reason he was so excited to train today. Naruto wanted to practice his Hyouton, but hadn't been able to due to his teacher's strict orders to relax. And not to mention the fact he still had to look over the scroll of Hyouton jujutsu, having spent the remainder of the day yesterday studying the theories and physics behind the ice abilities.

His eating pace was much more subdued by the time the remaining members of Team Seven made it to the table.

As Sasuke sat down, he motioned for the start of their plans with his eyes. His partner in crime nodded her head as she turned towards the blond demon container to begin a basic interrogation –it was straightforward and a good starting point, but if push came to shove, they had better ideas at their disposal for later use.

Inari watched the duo with a careful eye, keeping track of every single last one of their movements. It was attempt number one and it was time to commence the counterattack!

Just as Sakura opened her mouth to ask a question, she felt something wet collide with her face. Sasuke looked to his partner to see why she was stalling only to feel his eyebrows go past his hairline as he saw morning's breakfast decorating the side of her face.

Her eyes grew to the size of saucers, realization of what had happened hitting her like an Akimichi trying to get to an all-you-can-eat buffet. Naruto didn't make things any better by falling out of his seat laughing.

The Haruno's neck muscles could be heard as she slowly turned her head to the culprit, wearing a look of pure hatred. Everyone soon joined to see Inari trying his absolute best to look as innocent as possible. Sadly, he could tell that he wasn't getting very far and pointed his finger towards his grandfather who was blissfully reading the morning paper.

Kakashi made a midair snatch, grabbing Sakura's ankle and abruptly ending her jump across the table to choke the young boy, all the while not looking up from his book.

Naturally, the cherry blossom struggled against the older man's grip as she tried to crawl across the table to continue her vengeance while Inari retreated under the table to avoid getting murdered.

"Nice one, Inari!" shouted Naruto as he laughed.

It was enough for the enraged girl to turn her attention to him with a screech: "DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM!"

Her teammate should have stopped there, but it was one of those times that Naruto felt his shut-up filter suddenly stop. "I'm just saying, it was good prank, and I'm just jealous I didn't think of it first."

It was faster than the human eye could track. Sakura abandoned her original target and pounced on the blond, bringing him down to the ground while pounding him in any humanly possible way. His screams of agony could now be heard ringing through the house.

Kakashi just sighed at their antics while Sasuke could feel himself wincing with every hit the Dobe took, almost feeling bad for the unsuspecting idiot –almost being the key word. If only Naruto had used his common sense…

Inari, on the other hand, pumped his arm in victory under the table. The first of his planned sabotages had been successful.


Naruto walked into the forest around the house with his backpack in tow, intent on finding a place to train away from prying eyes. Soon, he came upon a clearing with a small pool of water he could use for his Hyouton. An excellent spot for practicing water manipulation without any nosy teammates nearby to prod into his business.

Taking off his bag, he opened it up to pull out the scroll with Haku's notes on Hyouton, detailing its mechanics and workings. With one last quick scan over it, he gave himself the okay to begin.

In the bushes behind the unsuspecting blond were the other members of Team Seven, planning their next move since plan A didn't go according to their hopes. It was time for plan B and Sasuke was now giving his pep talk to the pink haired girl.

"Whatever you do," ordered the Uchiha, "don't lose your temper. If that happens, he might become too afraid. Don't blow it."

Sakura bobbed her head up and down as she burned their basic plan into her brain. It was simple: try to flirt with him a bit, be a little nice, make him drop his guard, and then have him start to spill the beans. Sweet and simple and down to the point –it should work.

With the final prompt from the Uchiha, she quietly got out the bush and slowly made her way to Naruto, who was oblivious to her presence. She tried to put on a friendly smile, but it just seemed a little fake to her, making her a little worried that the sun-kissed blond wasn't going to buy it.

Her curiosity ebbed away at her nervousness the closer she got. To her mild surprise, Naruto was reading a scroll, something that she never known him to do. He just always seemed too hyper to want to read a book.

Against her better judgment, she inched a little closer to see if she could make out anything on the parchment, earning Sasuke's nervous/annoyed looks directed at her. She could only make out a couple words from the distance she was, words like 'manipulation' and 'ice'. And one word she couldn't identify nor had she heard of altogether: Hyouton.

The blond's ears twitched when she got close enough, signifying he sensed her. Much to her slight panic, Naruto rolled up his scroll as fast as possible and then turned to her with one of his foxy grins painted on his face, causing her squeak in mild shock.

"Hey Sakura-chan! What're you doing here?" he asked.

For a second, words escaped her mouth, but she quickly recovered and tried to save what little dignity she had left.

"Um, I was just a little worried," Sakura began while trying to wear something akin to a puppy-dog pout, "You've been acting weird lately and I just want to make sure that everything is okay."

To sweeten things up, she began to slowly decrease the proximity between the two, catching Naruto off guard. Sasuke was in the bushes wearing his patented Uchiha smirk knowing Naruto was going to cave at any second.

For Naruto, this was a little unexpected. One: Sakura was being nice and rapidly closing the distance between them; and as of right now, he felt his twelve-inches of comfortable clearance being rapidly used up. Two: she was starting to look cute for him, something that he only imagined he would get in his dreams. Right now, two and two weren't adding together properly.

"I mean, I just hoping that there's nothing wrong. You can always talk to me about anything," she sweetened her voice even more, trying to sugarcoat it.

Inari on the other hand, abandoned his original plan of just jumping in and distracting Naruto when he saw how they were trying to get the blond to talk. Oh no. He had a better one, one that was sure to make the Uchiha feel like he was on fire… literally.

The little boy snuck up from behind the unsuspecting Sasuke while holding a box of matches he procured from the kitchen. With an evil smile, he lit one as quietly as possible, and, while his target was distracted, he waved the lit match under the dark haired boy's bottom, trying to give a new meaning to the words 'liar liar, pants on fire'.

Naruto's look of nervousness quickly changed into something that made him look as if something awful had passed under his nose.

Sakura was about to panic at the thought of failing until Naruto made his disgust known, "Is it just me or is something burning?"

The bubble-gum-haired kunoichi gave him an odd look, but it quickly changed as she caught a whiff of the smell in the air. "Actually, I think there is something burning."

In the bushes, Sasuke was sweating and he couldn't help but wonder why his butt felt like it was on fire. Suddenly, he felt his pants burst into flames, causing him to panic and make a dash towards the pool of nearby water, completely abandoning the plan to get Naruto talking in favor of not suffering third degree burns.

The other two members of Team Seven watched as the Uchiha ran past them in a blue blur with black smoke trailing behind him –it would also probably be the first and only time Naruto would hear him scream like a girl. The sizzling sound of a fire being put out could be heard for a couple seconds and then followed by a deep sigh of relief.

As soon as the smoke cleared, Naruto keeled over with uncontrollable laughter. It was worth more than a million bowls of ramen to see Sasuke running around with ass on fire! And what were the odds that he would see it today out of the days in his life?!

Sakura, though, had slapped her hand over her eyes in embarrassment. That had just ruined plan B.

It was back to the drawing board.


Kakashi looked up from his porn as his three students walked in for lunch. Sakura was once again holding up Sasuke who looked as if he was having trouble standing in the first place.

Naruto on the other hand…

"I still can't believe that your ass caught on fire! What the hell were you doing?! Did you fart out a fireball, or something?!" the blond said in between his laughter while gripping his backpack.

Sasuke scowled murderously at his teammate, but kept his mouth shut. He still didn't have a clue as to how his posterior had experienced spontaneous combustion anyways.

"I'm going to grab some new clothes," announced the Uchiha, walking by himself towards his room with pain.

The scarecrow's eyebrows rose past his hairline as he saw Sasuke's bottom charred black from the remains of a fire. From the looks of it, the burn wasn't very dangerous, being at least akin to particularly nasty sunburn. Sasuke wasn't going to have an easy time, though, if he chose to sit down.

"Well that was funny," said the grinning blond, "but I'm going to go and train some more. I don't think I'll be back till dinner."

Kakashi nodded in his head in approval before he added in his two cents: "That's fine, but don't overdo it. I plan on us having a team practice after dinner."

"Got it!" Naruto shouted with a mock salute.

With those parting words, the hyperactive knucklehead of Team Seven dashed towards the forest with his backpack swaying as he ran.

Sakura sighed as she walked upstairs, looking for her partner in crime to relay what she had seen from Naruto's scroll. Her teammate's absence gave them time to work on a plan C since their last one didn't quite go so well.

She knocked on his door and got the permission to enter. The pink haired girl almost laughed as she saw a fully dressed Sasuke struggling to sit on his bed as softly as possible. With one final pain filled look, he finally accomplished the task of trying to relax on his bed.

"Well, that didn't exactly go according to plan," he started.

"No, it didn't, but how the heck did your pants catch on fire exactly?" Sakura asked.

Sasuke just shrugged his shoulders, still not quite able to pin the identity of the culprit. It couldn't have been Naruto; he was watching him the whole time. If it was him, then he had to admit that the blond truly had the greatest prank skills on the planet.

But Hell would freeze over before he said that out loud.

"Anyways, I did catch a little bit of what Naruto was reading," the cherry blossom mentioned.

This had immediately caught the Uchiha's attention. Naruto wasn't one to read, or to pick up a book at all, but for the blond to sit down and actually read something was like Sasuke dancing in a pink tutu. Those kinds of things just don't happen, but the impossible did occur and Naruto remained calm enough to actually skim over a scroll.

"What did it say?" asked the ebony haired boy, not bothering to keep the curiosity out of his voice.

"I could only catch a couple words. I think they were 'manipulation' and 'ice'. There was this one word though…" she thought as she put her finger up to her chin.

"Well?" he asked impatiently.

"Hyouton… Yeah, that's the word!" she announced.

Ice Release, thought the Uchiha skeptically. That had to be a joke. No shinobi could just create ice; it was impossible! A ninja could only work with the five basic elements.

Then he remembered his battle with Haku. His mind recalled how the faux Hunter-Nin created the ice senbon and the ice mirrors. He also remembered the brief mention of the word Hyouton during the intense battle, but it wasn't explained any further.

He honestly thought those were some of the coolest jutsu he ever saw, but he was inwardly upset that his Sharingan wasn't active at the time to allow him to copy those jutsu. Both of the techniques he had witnessed were astounding and the ice mirror jutsu easily had S-class capabilities.

But were there any secrets behind the attacks? Was there a deeper reason why these ice jutsu weren't known anywhere else in the world? Better yet, and this was if his hypothesis proved true of the blond somehow getting them, how did Naruto procure the scrolls that contained them?

"Sasuke-kun?" asked Sakura, trying to snap him out of his thoughts.

He shook his head for a second to try and get back to the real world. This secret dug a little deeper than they had originally thought; that much was confirmed by Sakura.

"Sorry, I was just thinking about something," Sasuke said. "Hey, do you think that there's something a little deeper going on than we think?"

Sakura took a seat on the floor so that she could think, looking underneath the underneath. At first glance, nothing seemed out of the ordinary other than Naruto taking time to read something, the weird goggles, and, lastly, his self isolation. So far, Kakashi was the only one who was able to talk to Naruto without any problems.

But as a girl, she understood secrets. The key behind them was that they always centered on something, something that a person didn't want anybody else to know about. Finding what that center point was always led the way to unlock the mystery; it was like trying to solve a puzzle. A major problem was that some people took it to an extreme to hide things, making it really difficult to get even a small hint.

"Do you know where some paper is?" she asked. "It'll be easier for us to try and add things up if we write down what we know."

Sasuke nodded and carefully moved to his backpack, making sure to not harm his still sore butt. He didn't find any paper, but he tossed her a blank scroll with pen instead.

Before she wrote down anything, she tried to recall all the abnormalities that Naruto was displaying. First was the goggles, he had not taken them off since the day after the battle nor did he explain where he got them. Second was his self isolation, which had started minutes after the battle. Third was his unusual behavior, like reading and taking his sweet time to get to breakfast; basically, him doing un-Naruto-ish things.

There was one other thing that her mind had conjured, but she tried to shove the thought into the back of her mind with no avail. She didn't want to remind herself of what had happened on the bridge; it was a nightmare that she didn't want to relive. But did it have any relevance to Naruto's secrecy?

"Sasuke-kun, do you remember your fight with the Kiri-Nin?" He nodded in affirmation, allowing her to continue. "You wouldn't mind telling me about it, would you?"

He raised an eyebrow at her unique request, trying to figure what that had anything to do with them trying to find out Naruto's secret.

"What does this have to do with anything?" he finally asked.

"Trust me," Sakura assured. "I'll tell you after you tell me what had happened."

With a defeated sigh, he recalled the entire battle, giving her every little detail he could remember. He did make it a point though to make sure he didn't indulge her about him telling Naruto about his brother. The Uchiha didn't miss a beat of his recount outside that.

Sakura kept silent for a long while, trying to digest what she was hearing. Whatever had happened when the dark chakra swept through the bridge, her teammate had been out like a light during the duration of the moment.

She took a deep breath as she got ready to explain to what had happened during his unconsciousness, "Alright, this is what happened while you were out."

From there, she explained everything, how the air itself felt hollow and devoid of all life and how it felt as if one had to beg for mercy to someone that wasn't there. Sasuke's eyes remained widened throughout the explanation, still not believing what had happened.

The Uchiha heir sat their for a minute trying to add everything together while Sakura made herself busy writing down all the weird stuff that had happened, having decided that the weird feelings on the bridge could count as another piece to the puzzle that was their enigma of a teammate.

So far, their list included the weird chakra on the bridge that no one witnessed, Naruto wearing goggles, his avoidance of his team like the plague (except Kakashi), and his unusual behavior were the only clues they had to work with.

Sakura looked down at everything she had written, trying to add everything together. Sadly, this was worse than any algebra equation she had done before.

What was Naruto hiding that would have to do with the goggles and the weird chakra…? It then hit her; it was something that could come out of the left field, but it was still a very real possibility.

"Um, Sasuke-kun, this is a long shot, but I have an idea that would explain some things," she said nervously.

He looked up from his ponderings, impatiently waiting for what she had to say. "Well, what is it?"

She gulped as she readied to explain. "Is it possible that Naruto could've developed a Bloodline Limit of some kind, a Doujutsu to be precise? I mean, that would explain a lot about the goggles and the weird chakra."

Sasuke felt his eyes widen in surprise at what she suggested. It wasn't possible that the Dobe could all a suddenly develop something out of nowhere… it had to be! He wanted to be the only one on the team to have a Limit, but if Naruto had one, it gave him a leg up, something he absolutely did not want.

But as it pained him to say, it made sense. It did explain everything, but if the blond did have something, what kind of Limit was it?

"We need to get those goggles off," he decided aloud.


Naruto had returned to the clearing where Sasuke had caught his ass on fire to train.

Looking around to make sure that no one was around, he pulled off his goggles to reveal his silvery pupils. Adding chakra, he shattered his eyes, bringing the shattered mirror-like irises into play. With one last thought, he willed for his Sharingan to make an appearance and with that, the shards fell out of his eyes in an instant.

Again, he recalled that at Haku and Zabuza's hideout, his crimson eyes took exactly seven seconds before they appeared, but it did it instantly once more. He shoved the thought into the back of mind with a shrug of his shoulders and summoned his clones.

Looking at them, he expected to see hundreds of Pinwheel Eyes, but instead found that none of them had the Kyoukagan to begin with, not even the silvery pupils.

"Hey, why don't you guys have the Kyoukagan?" he asked to no one particular.

All of the blonds turned to each other with looks of surprise, before all them turned to the leader and shrugged their shoulders, all bearing faces of confusion.

"I think it's just another thing that you're going to have to ask Jiji," one of the clones suggested.

"Oh well. Come and get me!"

With a large battle cry, all one hundred of the clones charged at their master.

Naruto was having the absolute time of his life using his Sharingan! He experienced a weird sense of déjà vu every time he saw one of the clones try to attack him and quickly counterattacked before any of his miniature visions could come true.

Naruto could now see why Sasuke bragged so much about the Sharingan: IT WAS SO COOL! To be able to see things before it could happen in a split second was so awesome. He could see how an enemy ninja could fear such a Limit.

He smirked to himself while dodging a punch, knowing he had a Limit that could make people even more fearful. The Sharingan could copy jutsu, but his eyes copied Limits, making him even more dangerous. He could have the Sharingan and whatever else was out there. The possibilities were endless for him!

Finally, after four brutal minutes of taijutsu, Naruto collapsed to the ground, breathing hard. Despite the Sharingan being able to read attacks, it only worked on what you could see. Thus, much to his chagrin, the army of clones got smart and began to attack his blind spots. He was going to keep that in mind whenever he fought Sasuke.

After several seconds, he could here Kakashi's voice ring through the clearing. "So that's what your Limit does?"

The scarecrow jumped from one of the trees as he helped Naruto into a sitting position while studying the Sharingan that was spinning in his eyes. It looked normal, but the major difference was the mirror-like pupils.

"So, the Sharingan can copy jutsu, but your eyes can evidently copy other Bloodline Limits?" Naruto slowly nodded his head, still trying to get his breathing under control. "That's absolutely astounding. There's never been a Limit heard of like this one. I can understand now why you want to keep it a secret; a lot of ninjas would be after it."

"Yeah," said the blond slowly.

"How many Limits have you copied?" the scarecrow asked.

"Two: Sharingan and Hyouton," said Naruto with pride in his voice, finally getting his breathing under control. "Right now, I was just training my Sharingan and was going to finally try out Hyouton for the first time after I was done."

"Can you turn off your eyes?"

Naruto did as he was told and stopped feeding his eyes chakra, causing the crimson eyes to stop spinning and then to be replaced with shattered irises. The shards quickly fell out of his eyes, once more returning them to crystal blue.

"I see… To stop feeding your eyes chakra is to deactivate the Limit altogether. It seems that some Bloodline Limits require that they stay active in order to be used," Kakashi said more to himself than Naruto.

"Hey! Is it okay if I train with Hyouton now?" the blond asked, finally hoping to try out his friend's abilities.

Kakashi got out of his thinking pose and gave him an eye smile, "Oh, sorry. Yes, by all means. Just as long as I can stay and watch."

Naruto gave the okay, allowing the older man to take his spot on one of the trees above while leaning on the trunk, looking on in curiosity.

It was really astounding that such a Limit existed… and it was also dangerous. So many countries would want to steal it just because of how amazing it was. Naruto was once again the most unpredictable ninja alive, gaining an ability that many would kill for.

The blond was about to shatter his eyes to activate his other Limit until he felt something twinge in the back of his mind, a sixth sense of someone nearby. Looking towards his sensei, he could feel a signature of some kind coming from his covered eye.

"Kakashi-sensei, this may sound a little funny… but I think I can sense your left eye."

The scarecrow just blinked in surprise. "How's that possible?"

"I don't know I could just sense it!" the blond yelled back.

Kakashi put his hand to his chin as he thought about it. Naruto just sensed his eye, but not him. It surprised him that he couldn't sense the Hatake white chakra, which was classified as a Limit. But this possibly meant that a sixth sense of some kind was…

Naruto's eyes slowly widened as he slowly began to sense Kakashi himself. The eye and the scarecrow's body had completely different feelings though.

"Naruto, can you sense me?"

The blond bobbed his head up and down as he stared at the man trying to decipher what he was feeling. He could sense a familiarity of some kind between the wiry man and him.

"That's what I thought. You're not sensing me, your sensing my Bloodline Limits."

"YOU HAVE A BLOODLINE LIMT!?"

Kakashi nodded his head. "Yes, I have two: one from my father's family and one from Obito. I'm going to jump out on a limb and say that your eyes allow you to sense other Bloodline Limits. Sort of a way that you can copy the most Limits possible."

Naruto stared at him for a bit, trying to take in the info before his mind got other ideas. "Um, would I be able to copy yours?"

The former ANBU felt his eyebrows go into his hairline as his student's words entered his ears. Did the blond just ask for permission to copy his Bloodline Limit when he could just copy it without problems?

"Why are you asking? You know you don't have to," he asked with curiosity laced into his voice.

Naruto just began to rub the back of his head while smiling sheepishly. "Well, I just want to be rude like Teme and copy everything without asking first."

"That's very nice of you; of course you have my permission."

Kakashi was genuinely surprised with Naruto. He never expected him to ask for his right to copy anything. It did, for one thing, show the difference in personality Sasuke and he had. Sasuke was willing to make it a game to copy things just so he could avenge his clan; Naruto on the other wanted to earn his power.

"SWEET! That's three!" shouted Naruto while jumping up and down and then calming down while adopting a curious smile. "So, what does it do?"

"It's known as the Byaku Chakra. It's a unique chakra that's colored white along with a whole arsenal of abilities. Do you remember my battle with Zabuza?" Naruto bobbed his head up and down once more in excitement. "His sword should have easily destroyed my kunai, but it didn't. That's because I coated my kunai with a very thin layer of it. Let me give you a full on demonstration."

Kakashi pulled out one of his kunai and then began to channel a small bit of his unique chakra into the blade, giving it a white aura. Then the blond watched as his sensei lazily threw the kunai at a tree, sending it through the trunk and then through the rock that was behind it, finally coming to a stop on the trunk of a tree behind the boulder.

"How the…!" announced Naruto with wide eyes.

"It's simple; the kunai was sharpened to an extremely high degree. If had I thrown it any harder, it would have gone through at least five more trees before it finally stopped. Byaku Chakra is much denser than normal chakra, requiring a lot less to use any jutsu. And let's be honest, for a jounin, my reserves are kind of small for where they should be, but because my chakra is denser…"

"… It requires even less chakra for even higher powered moves!" finished Naruto excitedly.

"That's right. It has other more mysterious properties that even I haven't unlocked, but I'll tell you the other abilities later. So are you going to copy the Limit or not?"

Naruto nodded, still wearing his smile, before he shattered his eyes once more and began to stare at Kakashi for a couple seconds.

It was an amazing feeling. Naruto could feel his eyes working as he stared at the man, copying the Limit and adding it to his growing arsenal. The blond let out a smile as he felt a click in the back of his mind, telling him that he had copied the Limit.

"Got it!" said the boy, giving his teacher a thumbs up.

"Excellent, I'll start training you in it later, but for now, I think you should be practicing your Hyouton. I'm going to go ahead and sit down and see just to see how things work."

With that, the blond closed his eyes to help him concentrate manifesting the ability. Finally he opened his eyes to allow the shards to fall to the ground, but he adopted a confused look as he felt the shards slowly drift out of his eyes, like the time when he had gone to the hideout. Seven seconds later, he had Haku's stormy eyes.

Kakashi watched everything intently. He had just found a major weakness to the Kyoukagan, but he needed to experiment to confirm his suspicions. That would be a later time though.

Once more, Naruto shrugged it off and walked towards the pond to practice his Limit for the first time.

Stretching his arm out, he remembered Haku's notes and began to slowly allow his chakra to saturate into the water. Finally he wielded it to move and smiled as a small tentacle of water began to coil its way into the air. Naruto then forced it to come towards him, separating the water he was controlling from the pond. He smiled as it got in between his hands, shifting and contorting like it was some form of clay.

Now came the hard part: trying to freeze it. His memory recalled from the scroll that Hyouton was the mixing of wind and water chakra, but he had absolutely no idea on how to manipulate elemental chakra.

With a grimace, he just settled with himself to shove more chakra into the water, causing it to explode into his face, thoroughly soaking him.

Kakashi snickered, earning a yell from the blond: "IT'S NOT FUNNY!"

"It was from my vantage point. Anyways, if this is an elemental Bloodline Limit," explained Kakashi, "then it's just a matter of combining the two chakras."

"It's not as easy as it looks," mumbled the blond.

"You're right. It is one of the most difficult forms of training out there, but for people with elemental chakra manipulations, such as Hyouton or Mokuton, it should come natural to you. It's just the matter of splitting the chakra and then recombining it out of the body. Try again, but this time split the chakra into two."

Naruto scowled but complied. Once more, he willed some of the water to his palms and began concentrating on splitting the chakra like his sensei told him to. When he did, he felt his eyes widen a bit; the chakras both had a very different feel to them. He could feel the water chakra inside the liquid he was contorting and the wind chakra on the outside in the air.

With a shove, he put the wind chakra into the water causing it to freeze into a perfectly round sphere. He smiled as he held it in the air, having just mastered the basics of the Limit.

"YAHOO!"

Naruto was about to leap in the air for joy, but his lack of concentration caused the ice ball to obey the laws of gravity. It fell to the ground… right on top of Naruto's foot. The blond boy let out a loud yell as he began to hop on one foot while trying to cradle the appendage.

Kakashi naturally let out some laughter as he watched his student hop on one foot while cussing the air blue with words that would have had a boat full of sailors blush in embarrassment. If only he had a camera…

The jounin cut his laughter short to see that the sun was three quarters of the way through the sky, signifying that it was dinner time.

Turning to Naruto, he told him his observations: "Naruto, I think it's time for dinner, but before we go to the house, do you mind if I test something with your eyes?"

The blond stopped dancing on one foot and looked towards his sensei. "No problem, but what do you want me to do?"

"Oh, it's simple really; just use the Sharingan again."

Naruto nodded and shattered his eyes, once more turning his irises into the shattered mirrors. Like last time, he willed that his eyes change, but to Kakashi's and Naruto's surprise, the shards fell out of his eyes, glistening like a snowfall in the sunlight, not all at once like usual.

Sixteen seconds later, the Sharingan was spinning in his eyes.

"What the hell…"

Naruto was cut off as Kakashi voiced his observations. "That's what I thought. It seems we have found a major weakness to the Kyoukagan."

"And what's that?"

"In order for you to use your various Limits, your body has to adjust to the change that each one requires. For instance, my Sharingan doesn't work properly because, for one, I don't have the memory capability or the proper frontal lobes that the Uchiha have. Thus, I have to use a lot of chakra to make up for this. You on the other hand, use the Limits as if you had them your whole life, but because your body must change, it becomes more and more exhausted, thus it takes longer in between Limit changes."

"If this is true," continued the copy-cat, "when you first activate Kyoukagan and change into a Limit, its instant because your body is a blank slate. After that, you get one instant change into another Limit, but even further after that, it starts with seven seconds from what I've seen and then jumps to sixteen seconds. I imagine that after that it would be somewhere past thirty seconds for a fourth change."

"This can be dangerous; keep that in mind because in the world of shinobi, a couple seconds could easily be the difference between life and death. When in battle, make sure to change as few Limits as possible. Suggestively, find at least three Limits for possible situations and stick with them, but change as little as possible."

"Okay," started Naruto, still trying to grasp what he was hearing. "That's all and good, but how do I restart the time thingy?"

"Rest, obviously," answered Kakashi with a shrug. "It's probably very hard on the body to all of a sudden change your anatomy. Now that I clarified this, we should head to dinner before everyone gets curious."

With a nod from the boy, both teacher and student began the trek back home, but the blond made sure that he grabbed his backpack before he forgot it.


"YOU TWO ARE LATE!" was the response of Sakura as the goggle wearing Naruto and the ever tardy Kakashi stepped into the house.

Naruto smirked as he sensed the ever moody presence of Sasuke sitting at the table, thanks to his newfound sixth sense. After he entered the house, he quickly went upstairs to put his backpack with the rest of his belongings before he came downstairs to join the dinner with Tazuna's family.

He came in time to hear Kakashi's lame excuse: "Sorry, we both just got lost on the road of life."

Sakura and Sasuke both rolled their eyes at their eternally late teacher and quickly got back to their half eaten dinner. Naruto quickly rejoined everyone and quickly piled on the food to his plate.

Interestingly enough, Inari kept a suspicious eye on the Haruno and Uchiha. So far, the two hadn't made any new plans he was aware of, but he wasn't about to let the two get away with anything.

For Sasuke, it was time to implement plan C, his final plan. Sakura and he hadn't discussed their third plan together, but he had been planning this one without her consort for a while. This plan was sure to succeed; he wouldn't allow it to fail, otherwise he'd be the new village idiot. After all, the third time is always a charm.

"Naruto," said blond looked up from his food to Sasuke to see that he was wearing his signature superiority smirk. "Want to make a bet?"

Did his ears pick up what he thought he heard? Sasuke was making a bet with him?! It was too good to pass up.

"I'm game. Let's hear it," spoke the smiling blond.

"Me and Sakura against you in a fight."

Sakura felt her drink go up her nose. After coughing out everything that decided to go down the wrong tube, she turned her wide-eyed attention to her teammates. What the hell was Sasuke planning now, and how did it involve her!?

"Alright," accepted Naruto with his foxy grin, but Sakura thought herself going crazy as she saw his pupils glowing past his goggles. "What's in it for me?"

"I teach you one of my own jutsu; oh, maybe the Fire Release: Grand Fireball Technique."

"Okay, I like what I'm hearing so far."

"But you have to take off your goggles if I win."

Naruto's smirk quickly changed into an angry scowl. If looks could kill, Sasuke would have a boiling pile of puke.

The bet was so great that Kakashi put his book down as he waited for his student's answer. This was both a miracle vine from heaven in that it would put the Kyoukagan in a full on test, but it was also a weed from hell because if Naruto lost, shit would hit the fan.

Sakura felt her eyes widen as she caught on to Sasuke's third plan of action. He was willing to gamble and attack Naruto's pride to get him to reveal something. It was genius, but she doubted that her blond teammate would even come close to winning due Sasuke's Sharingan.

But to both Sakura and Sasuke, this proved that Naruto was hiding something under those goggles. Did Naruto really develop a Bloodline Limit of some kind during the battle with Haku?

Naruto was also weighing the odds. He had three Limits at his disposal, two of which he had yet to fully master. And it was two against one, but he accounted for Sakura's lack of any truly nasty jutsu. The odds at the moment were being balanced on a scale.

The fire jutsu, even though it was cool, didn't really matter to him. What really mattered was the ability to smother Sasuke's face with dirt and he wouldn't hold back just because Sakura was on his side either. All was fair in love and war.

"When and where… prick?" Naruto asked, holding a look that meant business.

Sakura felt her eyes widen as she heard Naruto take the bait. Kakashi on the other hand, just sighed. He once more found himself cursing his students' competitiveness.

Sasuke continued smirking as he felt his plan working. "Tomorrow at noon near the spot that Kakashi-sensei trained us to climb trees."

"I guess this means that I'm going to have to cancel team practice tonight," conceded Kakashi.

Naruto quickly finished his dinner in less than two bites before he ran upstairs to grab his trusty backpack once more. He needed at least one or two Hyouton moves mastered before he could fight.

"Where are you going?" asked Sasuke in a mocking voice.

"To train. What else asshole?" The Uchiha scowled, but Naruto let his foxy grin loose as he poured salt on the wound. "I would set you ass on fire, but it seems someone beat me to it."

Sasuke's scowl quickly became an angry grimace as he saw the blond leave but did nothing to stop him. Payback would come when he stuck the blond into the dirt in the fight tomorrow.

"Sasuke-kun," the aforementioned boy turned towards a nervous looking Sakura. "You wouldn't mind training me a bit tonight, would you?"

The ebony haired boy nodded his head in approval. Right now, she needed to get stronger or otherwise she was just going to be a hazard on the field.

Kakashi did count the rivalry that his students had as a mix blessing as he watched the exchanges they had. It made sure that they got stronger quickly, but it sure was annoying as Hell. He just hoped that Naruto could keep up because he knew that Sakura was going to pack some firepower when Sasuke was done with her.

Inari was as pissed as a rattled hornet's nest. He knew what the Uchiha's plan was, but he couldn't interfere this time because his older brother figure had wanted it. All he could settle for was to watch and hope that Naruto won.

Kakashi sighed once more as he dismissed his self from dinner to head up to the roof for thinking. He had a lot to go over.


At the clearing that Naruto situated himself in, a grin that threatened to split his face in half was painted across the front of his head as he looked at an open scroll. It was the Hyouton scroll and the first move he was looking at was awesome.

It was called Ice Release: Frostbite, and it was badass.

Kill Joy no Jutsu (A.K.A. Author's Note): On to business! Kakashi's Limit… Okay, I can't remember if the white chakra thing is canon or a product of fandom, but if it isn't in the manga, oh well. It will be pretty cool to see.

Now, I hope you all liked Sakura and Sasuke's misfortune with Inari. I was laughing as I was writing the scene with our favorite emo boy. I did have a couple other plans but I thought Sakura losing all her clothes would have been a little inappropriate. Long story about that, I may post it in an omake if I ever have time because I was laughing at the thought alone.

I hope I made the Kyoukagan weakness understandable. There is one other, but it won't be seen until the Chunin Exam Arc.

Onto original Limits! Unfortunately, the Kyoukagan factoid won't be seen until much later.

Original Limits and Techniques:

Byaku Chakra (White Chakra) – Anatomy and Function- A Bloodline Limit native to Konoha that gives its user unique white chakra and coils to match. Only three generations have been recorded starting with Hatake Kakashi's grandfather and then his father, Hatake Hakumo. Due to it being a recent Limit, many of abilities of the Byaku Chakra are still unknown.

The basis of Byaku Chakra is the white chakra. This specialized chakra is almost three times more dense than regular chakra thanks to its purity. Jutsu that require higher chakra reserves become easier to use due to the density of the chakra. The chakra can also be controlled in a variety of abilities outside the body, which include using a chakra cloud to disrupt some Doujutsu and a unique form of Taijutsu created through the use of chakra displacement in conjunction with the chakra cloud.

A favorite ability of Byaku Chakra users is the ability to augment weapons in ways similar to elemental manipulation. The speed of a kunai, as well as destructive power, can be indefinitely augmented by use of the chakra; the same applies with shuriken.

A fairly recent discovery suggests that Byaku Chakra reacts to different metals in a variety of ways, but not much is known about it.