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 eveo guess why he did this as he bluntly stated that he almost removed any ce of Itachi being brought to justice by him to save Naruto. Acc to him he was "enlighteo the fact that he was only going to be dragged down by friendship or radery and that all he needed ower. I shouldn't o expin how this was a VERY dangerous mi 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 es 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 k. While I hold no love for the brat as he is more an annoyahan anything for me that didn't mean I was just going to sit bad let another Orochimaru type individual pop up if I could do something about it.-

  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 ails that was ag up within him had vanished. Oddly however the creature was not misbehavie 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 ued. I had taken to training him retly 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 pn in mind. I retty sure that it was only thanks to him not being taken seriously that he had even mao get one over on the guy.-

  Zabuza was easily just as strong if not strohan most jonin in the vilge and you mean to tell me a mere genin out skilled such a person, yeah right! He was merely lucky enough that Zabuza didn't see him as worth paying close attention to that he pulled off what he did. The sed big mistake Naruto made was that he fell for his enemies provocation and ran straight into a trap without hesitation. I was of course referring to the i where he ran straight into Haku's domain of ice mirrors AFTER he got Haku out of it.-

  Naruto himself even told me that he khat attag the struct of ice from both the inside and outside simultaneously was the best optioe that he ran right into it like an idiot which cost Sasuke and him a whole lot of unnecessary injuries as a result. These bad moves worked out in the end but were extremely bad habits to have and I was damned if I was just going to leave them unaddressed. I told Kakashi to screw off when he showed up to grab Naruto for a D rank mission.-

  I wasn't going to let Naruto go back to that stuff until I felt fident that I had knocked some on seo his head. The way I aplished this was easy, I forced him to live in the forest of death for aire two weeks with nothing on him but the clothes on his back. During that eime I stationed a solid e in the only way back to the vilge so he had no choice but to adapt. He wasn't really in danger since I had my beasts sneakily take out anything t for him out of that area but he still had to fight the beasts of the forest for resources.-

  As he quickly learrading injuries and taking stupid risks was not in fact a viable method to fight. Obviously I stepped in whenever he was at risk of dying but otherwise he was left to fend for himself. You want to talk about a full transformation, the Naruto that walked out of the forest was a whole different ohan the version that walked in two weeks priainst the much more experienced in battle beasts of the forest he had honed himself into a batant that didn't fight like a fool just hoping for the best anymore.-

  Uandably 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 als this time gotten a breakthrough in my chakra proje creation. I had figured out how to create a very small chakra proje that was barely more than a thin c on my pointer finger. Despite this super sizing it was unfeasible at the moment as just this small proje depleted my chakra reserves at an arming rate.-

  In addition it took ser focus to maintain just a small proje like that so I could only imagihe horrible mental strain c my whole body would cause. All that said it was clear to me however that the potential was there as using that small proje I could create a realistic cw at the tip of my fihat 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 ft 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 ell anyone where I got the inspiration for what I was doing from but I didn't see the issue sidering the Uchiha 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 fotten. That was stupid in my opinion sihout history to teach us what not to do we as humao repeat our mistakes. Still I did as he wanted and swore not to spread my inspiration if it ever came up. I 't say that I didn't get anything out of it though as I got to test the proje on some chakra metal as well as get some pointers from someone who had actually seen a Susanoo before.