"It's a bloodline?" asked Kakashi.
"Yes. So from now on the Uzumaki bloodline has its high stamina, healing talent, longevity, talent for fuuinjutsu, and this ability as well. The Weapon Master."
"Weapon? Like kunai?" asked Naruto. "I can already throw kunai."
"No. The first abilities are Scan and Reinforce. When your opponent has a weapon you can use Scan to determine what special properties it has. Reinforce makes your own weapon harder to break. Eventually you'll learn Repair and Copy. Repair to fix broken weapons or restore them to a like-new condition. Copy to learn weapons techniques that another is using. Eventually you'll be able to Manifest - the ability to create temporary versions of weapons you've used Scan on."
"That really doesn't fit Naruto too well," said Kakashi. "He's more prone to charging in and getting over his head."
"Kakashi-sensei, that's mean," protested Naruto.
"Perhaps, but it's true," said Kakashi. "Dog walking and ending up in a minefield? Clearing a field and pulling the crops with the weeds? Painting a fence, and also the sidewalk, the client, and two passerby?"
"Well..." said Naruto, grimacing at the memories.
"Well, I'd give it to Tenten if I had a better excuse. She really deserves something for being on a team run by Gai and with Lee and Neji being her teammates."
"Anyone who has Gai for a sensei really does deserve something good happening to them," admitted Kakashi.
"But this way it'll leave a possibility of Tenten being interested in Naruto, so that'll be interesting to see if it develops."
"How would she even know?" asked Kakashi.
"Hmph, ridiculous," said Neji.
"Something in the paper today?" asked Tenten, noting that Neji was practicing his Byakugan by reading different pages in a newspaper that was still folded up.
"The Uzumaki brat that was in the last class to graduate," explained Neji. "One of the genealogists that the various clans access came up with some findings regarding that 'deadlast' - that his ancestry may contains a Weapon Master kekkei genkai."
"Sounds intriguing," admitted Tenten. "What's it do?"
"Oh, there are ways."
"I don't suppose you can give him some self-control?" asked Kakashi.
"Where's the fun in that?"
"I take it back, both of you are mean," sulked Naruto.
"You're saying you could make Naruto less prone to charging in and messing up?"
"If I stirred myself to it, I could make it so that Sasuke Uchiha had been born a girl and thought Naruto was cute."
"Let's not go there," said a creeped-out Naruto.
"I could make it so that Sakura was only interested in other girls, or that Hinata was of the branch family of the Hyuga, or Jiraiya wrote cookbooks, or that Orochimaru had a catgirl fetish. I could change Sakura from 'tsundere' to 'cute bookworm' or a 'dojikko' or maybe something less used like a 'samurai-ko' type."
"Who?" asked Naruto.
"What?" asked Kakashi.
"Why? Is that YOUR wish, Kakashi Hatake?"
"If I had a wish," said Kakashi drily, "I'd wish-"
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