5 WEEKS LATER
NARUTO POV
Naruto was walking towards Sasuke's old house, now their workshop. Him and Sakura had been stopped by Sasuke who had asked them to come only at the end of the five weeks.
Naruto himself was quite excited to show them his progress with his seals. He had determined it impossible to be able to perfectly replicate a Jutsu from a seal. He could adjust the chakra output and nature, but not the shape.
With a bit of help from Kurama and Iruka Sensei, who seemed to be quite adept with capture type seals, he had managed to find a metal ore called kindium they could use to channel their own chakra through, so Sasuke's idea of launching Jutsu with a slash was still possible.
Sasuke had told him that while they had some of that in the Uchiha treasury, they wouldn't have enough for more than a sword and the tip of the spear.
So, they had been looking for places they could find or buy more of it. Until Sakura told them about another metal which could conduct chakra easily and while not as good as kindium it would be practical to wrap the kindium around the metal.
With this in mind, Sasuke had modified the workshops original plan to be able to store and smelt these special ores.
As Naruto entered the Uchiha clan district he saw Sakura just a bit ahead, lost in her own world. He saw that she was fiddling with some mechanical pieces. As he caught up to her she gave a triumphant shout and looked around for a second, spotting Naruto and marching up to him.
She grinned at him and said " Look at what I finally finished making."
It was a small wheel, thick on the outside, thin on the inside, on which a metal rope/string was wrapped around with a spring in place and a lot of other things which Naruto didn't even try to comprehend.
She threw a piece of metal connected by the metallic rope and pressed a button on the little device. To his wonder and her joy, the metal piece zoomed back towards the device before clipping back in place.
"With this we can do so many things. The wire is strong and can handle up to about 100 kg of weight I'd say. The range is above 90 that's for sure. We could easily use this as a weapon." She said with small smile at his starstruck expression.
"That is AMAZING" Naruto exclaimed. Wait till Sasuke sees this he's going to freak out Dattebayo."
"Why am I going to freak out?" Sasuke asked, walking towards them from the workshops direction.
His eyes widened in surprise when Sakura threw the metal piece and used the retraction device again. He looked like it was his birthday when she handed it to him.
"I can make a lot more so tell me when you need them" she said, walking towards the workshop again.
"Y-yeah" Sasuke said, walking towards the workshop too.
The workshop was amazing. The door opened to a rack with all the tools they would ever need directly opposite to them.
Turning left, they saw that there was a removable wall which hid the main forging room which contained two anvils, a blasting forge, a smelter, a cooling bucket filled with ice beside a huge ice box and yet another set of tools one might need for forging, including 5 hammers of different sizes.
Besides that, connecting to that room was an obsidian table with a set of different tools used for seal making. There was also an ink pot which refilled when chakra was applied along with different types of sealing scrolls.
The wall was lined with shelves with preservation seals, so he could leave a project midway and continue after he returned with no risk of ink drying or anything. The table had a built-in heater so that any hot metal he was etching seals on would not cool down in the amount of time it took him to draw them.
The next room had a bunch of different trinkets and tools used by craftsmen, including a lot of wheels and wire for Sakura to make those retraction things, three lamps from three different angles for easily seeing the device, two metal stick handle holders for holding the device she would be working on and a notebook with a pen to make notes of whatever ideas the user might have.
There was a staircase leading downstairs where they could see a number of boxes, half of which were empty and the other half had all the currently not used stuff from Naruto and Sasuke's shared apartment. There was also 3 rooms on the side with a bed and bathroom each along with a small kitchen in case someone stayed over,
At last, there was a table with multiple charts on which they could work on together to see what to work on next.
While Naruto and Sakura gaped in amazement Sasuke smirked and placed the device Sakura had made on the table.
They immediately got to work. As Sasuke spread the sheet of paper on the table and Naruto started drawing the rough diagram of a sword, Sakura took another small piece of paper and started drawing a diagram of the device she had made.
"We should find a way to incorporate the retractor into our weapons."
"Why just weapons dattebayo?" Naruto asked as he started making notes on the diagram she had made.
"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked.
"Well, if I can attach a kunai or something into its throwing end and etch a few seals we could basically fly around." He said absent-mindedly, taking a new sheet of paper and copying the diagram she had made with a few modifications.
"Anyway, we ought to fix our main roles as a team. Sakura is obviously the medic, but me and Sasuke just fight" he said, looking up to see them both just staring at him in wonder.
"Wh- I got something on my face?" He asked, suddenly feeling self-conscious.
"You are really smart sometimes you know" Sasuke said, shaking his head. "Anyway, I think I'll go for being a capture and interrogation expert, I think you should be the main fighter with your shadow clones and anti-chakra"
"We should start forging" Sakura said once they had finished with the plan.
Before they could start however, Yamato body flickered into the room and said "Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura. You three have an S rank mission straight from the hokage. You are to meet him at the hokage tower immediately."