Wind

Kakashi makes a full recovery, but Naruto's eagerness to begin his training puts a dent in his plans to lounge at his own home for awhile.

Naruto and Kakashi gather in an open field. Naruto feels nostalgic at the thought of Kakashi training him again, but there is little to no time for laughter. The development of Naruto's ultimate ninjutsu relies on two key factors: chakra shape and nature manipulation.

To simulate this, Kakashi has Naruto create a Rasengan, but not use it. This is an example of shape manipulation- the chakra within the Rasengan is rotated at an intense speed, but compressed to retain the shape. This shape manipulation takes Rasengan to its ultimate level, yet there's more to it than that. Next up is chakra nature manipulation.

Chidori, for example, starts off as simple lightning, but as Kakashi demonstrates, it can be recomposed to resemble concentrated electricity, and then changes the shape to a power surge, which determines the power and range. For Naruto to do this with Rasengan, he'll have to use both shape and nature manipulation.

It sounds simple for Naruto, who doesn't even know what his nature is, so Kakashi continues.

There are five basic types of chakra elemental natures: earth, wind, fire, lightning and water. Every person is geared towards one, but special cases, such as Sasuke- suited to both fire and lightning- can manipulate more than one nature. As Naruto does not know his nature yet, Kakashi pulls out several slips of paper. If he is geared towards wind, the paper will tear down the middle, burn if fire, get soggy if water, scrunch if lightning, and crumble if earth.

Naruto closes his eyes and concentrates. After a few tense seconds, the paper splits down the middle, confirming Naruto's chakra nature: wind. The training procedure will take a very long time, but before Kakashi can explain how to shorten this, Yamato arrives to help with the training. Naruto decides to ask what type of nature manipulation is his wood element.

Yes, he does that.

Yamato starts off with Doton, Doryuu Jouheki (Earth Earth rampart) to summon a mountainous chunk of earth and follows it with Suiton, Takitsubo no Jutsu (Water Waterfall Basin Jutsu) and adds a waterfall.

By the time one becomes a Jonin, they are able to use at least two types of elements. Wood is not one of the basic elements, so Yamato mixes both earth and water to create wood. This of mixing two elements is not unlike the Kekkai Genkai of others like Haku, who specialized in ice element by combining water and wind. Such a technique is exclusive to a certain clan, so there's no way Kakashi could copy it.

Naruto takes this a step further and asks about things like Shikamaru's Kagemane no Jutsu, Chouji's Baika no Jutsu, medical ninjutsu, the list can go on and on and Kakashi has no time to explain things like that.

Cutting the amount of training time requires using Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu). Unlike a normal Bunshin, a Kage Bunshin is an actual body and has the same physical characteristics of the creator. When used, any knowledge gained by the clones is transferred to the original user.

It's still like calculus to Naruto.

So the two create Kage Bunshins. The shadow clones go into the woods and have a game of rock, paper, scissors with Naruto as the victor. Once the jutsu is released, the original Naruto, who remained with Kakashi, realizes that he has won (as well as a treat to Ichiraku Ramen). Even though Kage Bunshin is Naruto's signature jutsu, he never caught on that the experience gained by the clones transferred to him.

Naruto doesn't get how this relates to speed training, while Kakashi doesn't get how in the hell Jiraiya taught the Rasengan to someone like Naruto.

By training with another clone, Naruto gets twice the benefit. Half of that time with two more clones, a third in three, and a thousandth with one thousand clones. So for the training, Naruto has to summon as many Kage Bunshins as he can to quicken the training process.

It's not a training process for someone like Kakashi, who lacks Naruto's stamina and chakra level. If the seal on the Kyubi was released, Naruto would have one hundred times the strength he has now. But with a constant stream of chakra being used, there's a chance of Naruto releasing the Kyubi, so Yamato is there to help suppress the Kyubi.

The first step to the training is to control the chakra element. Kakashi gives Naruto a leaf and instructs him to hold onto it and cut it with just chakra.

Naruto summons as many Kage Bunshins as the leaves on a nearby tree and begins the training the process. Amongst the many clones, one is able to make a small cut on the leaf.

Surprising to Kakashi, the training may go faster than expected. 

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