NABC Bad habits and progress
Bad habits and progress
Bad habits and progress
Sasuke was the worst off out of everyone in squad seven as this near death event had caused him to turn cold and distance himself from everyone. I didn't even need to guess why he did this as he bluntly stated that he almost removed any chance of Itachi being brought to justice by him to save Naruto. According to him he was "enlightened" to the fact that he was only going to be dragged down by friendship or comradery and that all he needed was power. I shouldn't need to explain how this was a VERY dangerous mindset for a shinobi to have.-
Allies , friends and family were something that every shinobi needed or they run the risk of losing themselves to the darkness of this world. Orochimaru was one such person as he cast aside these connections in search of power and became a monster for it. Sasuke was treading dangerously close to this line and I made sure Kakashi and the Hokage knew it. While I hold no love for the brat as he is more an annoyance than anything for me that didn't mean I was just going to sit back and let another Orochimaru type individual pop up if I could do something about it.-Fôllôw new stories at novelhall.com
That said I was not responsible for him and told those that were so they could deal with it. I had my own things going on and was unwilling to simply waste my time babysitting Sasuke. Moving on from that I discovered that the "limitation" I had felt on Naruto after the third did something about the nine tails that was acting up within him had vanished. Oddly however the creature was not misbehaving despite this as Naruto could perform jutsu as per usual.-
As a result I decided to leave the matter alone as it was not my business so long as Naruto was unaffected. I had taken to training him recently however as the report I got of the event told me how foolishly he had acted and I was going to beat that out of him before it became a bad habit. For starters he had tried to fight Zabuza Momochi of all people without any sort of plan in mind. I was pretty sure that it was only thanks to him not being taken seriously that he had even managed to get one over on the guy.-
Understandably he was also quite angry at me for putting him through that and nagged my ear off about all the times he was sure that he was done for. I was unapologetic however because it was for his own good. I had also during this time gotten a breakthrough in my chakra projection creation. I had figured out how to create a very small chakra projection that was barely more than a thin covering on my pointer finger. Despite this super sizing it was unfeasible at the moment as just this small projection depleted my chakra reserves at an alarming rate.-
In addition it took laser focus to maintain just a small projection like that so I could only imagine the horrible mental strain covering my whole body would cause. All that said it was clear to me however that the potential was there as using that small projection I could create a realistic claw at the tip of my finger that slid through chakra metal like it was butter. I know this because I tested it against some after pestering the Hokage about it.-
The look on his face when I told him about what I was trying to do was rather amusing as he looked like he had seen a ghost. Apparently he had thought that nobody remembered the Mangekyou sharingan and Susanoo. I flat out told him when he asked that the stuff was recorded in some of the history books albeit vaguely in the public library and that it only took a little digging to find it. The old man made me swear to never tell anyone where I got the inspiration for what I was doing from but I didn't see the issue considering the Uchiha clan was all but extinct at this point.-
When I asked him about his reasons for this secrecy all he said was that sometimes history was better forgotten. That was stupid in my opinion since without history to teach us what not to do we as humans tend to repeat our mistakes. Still I did as he wanted and swore not to spread my inspiration if it ever came up. I can't say that I didn't get anything out of it though as I got to test the projection on some chakra metal as well as get some pointers from someone who had actually seen a Susanoo before.