The Cursed Sharingan

Chapter 2

The blonde spent hours sitting in the same position. Her legs had begun to hurt and her wrists felt raw under the chains that she had stretched to make her handseal. Kyuubi had quit trying to give her advice after an hour and instead left her to practice on her own.

Despite her sore body, hungry belly, and overall uncomfortable situation as a captive, she attempted to focus only on her chakra network. It was very hard, yet fighting for not only the safety of yourself, but the safety of your unborn child as well made a very good motivator.

Despite Kyuubi's precise and lengthy explanation this was proving to be difficult. Kyuubi had estimated five or six months to complete the training. With three parts to the training that gave her roughly three months to complete each section. It all sounds nice and logical put like that, but she really did not like the thought of staying here for six months and had foolishly hoped to speed through the process.

She cursed at not being able to use her shadow clones. With clone training she could probably finish the whole training in weeks. At the same time, with use of her chakra this training would be unnecesary in the first place.

The blonde had easily found her chakra. Once you learn to access your chakra in the academy, your chakra is as much a part of your body as your left arm. It's familliar and right there. The difficult part was in focusing on each individual chakra pathway instead of seeing her chakra as a huge unrestrained mass as she usually did.

Having as much chakra as she did was both a blessing and a curse. Grandma Tsunade had once told her that normal people have one chakra source in their chest. Their chakra develops there and flows throughout their body via their chakra network. The chakra network is made up of chakra pathways and chakra points.

The Hyuuga are able to see this whole network with their Byakugan and even strike chakra points to close off chakra pathways and prevent a shinobi from using their chakra.

Keeping in mind Naruto's method of learning Tsunade chose to use a diagram of a chakra network and explain it from a Hyuuga point of view. Not only does Naruto have the source of her own massive chakra in her chest, but Kyuubi's even larger chakra output at the seal in her stomach.

She continued to explain that despite not having Byakugan, people with excellent chakra control are aware of every chakra pathway and point in their body. This is a part of the reason why you need excellent control to become a medical ninja.

Following this logic Naruto had decided to start at her chakra's focal point, her chest and try to follow it from there. Needless to say, this was unsucessful.

Naruto huffed in frustruation, releasing her tiger seal and taking a deep breath. After sitting peacefully for a few minutes she readied herself to continue when she head a noise.

She turned her head to stare intently at the door, hearing clearly now approaching footsteps. She struggled with her numb legs out of her sitting position before laying down on the bed and pretending to sleep.

Like any good shinobi, she evened out her breathing and kept still so as not to give it away. Internally she freaked out. What would she do? What if it was Itachi? What if he-

The door opened and the footsteps stoped at the edge of the bed.

Naruto was positively filled with fear. She desperately called for Kyuubi and the fox was attentative right away. She had only a moment to feel reassured and thanful for her furry companion, before a hand roughly shook her shoulder to 'wake' her up.

Naruto didn't bother to pretend to wake up slowly. Shinobi never woke up slowly and slept very lightly, it was something you learned very early. She turned to face the intruder and didn't know whether to sigh in relief or scream in fear at the sight of Madara's masked face.