Building the Yellow Brick Road by LittleOne94

Chapter 13 : Healer

"Never bet against Ryuu-sensei in a game of chance." Sasuke deadpanned to his old team -minus Kakashi- in all seriousness. Kakashi was currently listening to Ryuu-sensei give his report on the other side of the clearing.

"Why?" inquire Sakura, wondering if Sasuke's sensei had the same luck as her own sensei.

"He has the weirdest luck; it might as well be a bloodline limit! We ended up in the most bizarre of circumstances because of it and every time we were in a village or town with a gambling ring, Ryuu-sensei wiped the place almost clean every time to restock our money supply." Except for when they were in Kiri, then Ryuu-sensei spent all his time with his godfather and training Sasuke into the ground. "He's even in the Bingo Book for it!"

"Really!? So he's like the complete opposite of baachan!" exclaimed Naruto amusedly. Ryuu-sensei had dropped Sasuke off at training ground 7 an hour ago before fetching his teammates.

As Sasuke listened to Sakura and Naruto chatter away to him like old women, he couldn't help wondering what he had been so worried about?

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Meanwhile Harry and Kakashi where comparing notes on their shared student.

"We stopped at a few villages in Fire in order for Sasuke to learn blacksmithing before I started him on Kenjutsu"

"Why?"

"To learn some appreciation for his weapons mainly," mused Harry, he found the way most shinobi were...ungrateful? Unappreciative?...towards their weapons silly. If they took better care of them they'd get a larger percentage of their mission pay; most of the time half the pay went straight into replacing the weapons the shinobi had lost that mission. "But also so he would know how to do basic repairs and modifications himself. He can also now tell when someone is trying to sell him dodgy weapons." He had joined in himself on lessons. They were hard but darn useful!

"A useful skill" mused Kakashi, wondering how Ryuu had gotten even one blacksmith to agree to teach them as they guarded their profession secrets like clans guarded their techniques. "Does he have a preference?"

"He originally seemed to like the Katana while we were in Fire, but soon fell in love with the Chokuto when we reached Snow Country."

"How is he?"

"High-Adept, Low-Expert but nowhere near Master. His skills are there, but he still has a tendency to use flashy moves rather than a more basic one that would do the same job with less effort." Sasuke wasn't as bad as before when he first started teaching him, but he still slipped and fell on old habits easily.

"Most Uchiha were like that. The tendency was probably breed into them." deadpanned Kakashi. He had clashed horribly with the rare Uchiha who made it into ANBU. The flashy moves they wanted to use jeopardised the mission more often than not. Itachi had been the only sensible one of the lot.

"Is there anything else I need to know?" he knew Ryuu wouldn't tell him most of what Sasuke knew as a safety measure, but whatever information he was willing to part with was appreciated.

"I've gotten him to the point of Adept in both Healing and a variation of Uchiha Taijutsu. The rest you can have fun discovering on your own." Harry smirked when he said that, making Kakashi nervous. Ryuu had some trick planned for him. He really didn't want to find out what it was. Maybe he should take a mission away from the village for a while?

"So…seen Gamakichi anywhere?"

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Leaving the rest of team 7 behind, Harry and Sasuke retired to a hotel to organise what they would do form now on. After all these years together it had just turned into a habit for them to get a hotel room together when they entered a village.