Naruto Story Idea #1
Eventual SasuNaru (optional)
In this Naruto is somewhat smart. Not a genius, but not dumb either.
When in Wave, after the battle on the bridge, Naruto comes up with the idea to heal Sasuke using Kyuubi's chakra (after all, Kyuubi's chakra heals Naruto all the time, most likely in small amounts. If it can heal him, why not other people as well?). Nothing much comes from this but over time Sasuke begins to unconsciously develop a crush on Naruto, though he doesn't realize he likes him until years later.
Nothing changes much from the series but Sakura starts taking her training a bit more seriously after realizing how far ahead of her Naruto and Sasuke are, Sasuke starts acting a smidgen friendlier towards Naruto and their competitions slowly begin to go from trying to get one over the other (less friendly) to pushing each other to their limits (more friendly) and Naruto slowly gets better at chakra control from taking every chance he could to heal any cuts and scratches his teammates get. The actual big changes begin to start after the second part of the chunin exam.
Whether or not Sasuke leaves the village is optional.
(just to let you know, I haven't read a lot of the manga or seen the anime, so forgive me if some of the scenes are wrong)
Naruto stared at Sasuke helplessly. After all that had happened on the bridge, Naruto felt as though he had done nothing. He didn't help Sasuke in his fight with Haku; he probably just got in the way. He was too slow and got taken down so quickly and Sasuke had to protect him while fighting Haku, which only slowed him down. If Haku hadn't been so nice, Sasuke really would have died. And when Naruto had the chance to kill Haku, he hesitated and Kakashi-sensei wound up killing him instead. The only thing useful Naruto had done was intimidate the bandits and even that didn't fully work until Inari and the villagers came.
The blond tore his eyes away from the pin-cushioned Uchiha that was leaning heavily against an (in Naruto's opinion) overly cheerful Sakura and instead looked down at his feet. After a second he noticed the strange absence of needles poking out of him. He wasn't even feeling pain where the needles were, just soreness in his muscles and a sharp tingling all over his body from using Kyuubi's chakra. But even if the needles were gone, he still should have been bleeding and in pain so why-?
'Oh.' He thought as it clicked in his head. When he was overcome with Kyuubi's power, the demon chakra must have pushed the needles out and healed the holes. He rubbed a hand against his arm. No pain. He was completely healed.
A pained grunt caught his attention and he looked up at his male teammate. He wasn't leaning on Sakura as heavily as he was before, obviously trying to walk on his own. His exhaustion and the needles in his legs made that difficult, though. Naruto wanted to pull them out but knew it would do more harm than good. Sasuke would start bleeding out and unless Kakashi-sensei had a lot of bandages they would have no way to heal him…
A light bulb went off and an idea popped up in his head. Kyuubi's chakra could heal. If Naruto used a small amount and controlled it really well, maybe he could heal Sasuke! He could be useful for something. It was a gamble and he was afraid that he might hurt Sasuke even more but-!
"Hey Sasuke!" He called as he made his way over to his teammate. "Sit down would ya, there's something I want to try out."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow but after a few moments he gingerly sat down, probably silently glad to get off his legs. Sakura and Kakashi gave Naruto confused glances.
"I'm going to try and heal you, okay, but if it starts hurting say so!" He stared Sasuke strait in the eyes as he said this, trying to show how serious he was. "I need you to tell me if it hurts too much so I can stop or else I might do permanent damage."
Sasuke was giving him a wary look now. "Have you ever tried this out? How do I know you won't kill me or something?"
"I have done this before but only on myself. Now shut up and let me concentrate."
As they were talking Naruto had been gathering small amounts of Kyuubi's chakra and concentrating it into his hands. He had even, out of sight of the others, cut his palm and he could feel Kyuubi's chakra heal the cut. After he told Sasuke to shut up, Naruto eased out one of the senbon, blood coating the thin piece of wood. Before the needle was even fully out, Naruto had started pushing small amounts of Kyuubi's chakra in to wound. Sasuke frowned in discomfort, but he didn't say anything and Naruto didn't notice, his concentration solely on what he was doing. The blood flow was decreasing and his teammate had yet to say anything (like he would have noticed anyway) which meant that it was working but it took much more concentration and effort than he thought. The chakra kept wanting to push out wildly in large amounts and Naruto's attention couldn't stray or else it would flare out, which would probably hurt Sasuke a great deal (as much as he didn't really like the bastard, he didn't want to cripple him). It took a great deal of effort to keep the chakra under control in a small, steady stream and focus it on one small spot. But it was working and in less than a minute the wound had completely closed up, leaving only a small, circular scar in its place.
Naruto poked the spot where the wound had been. "How does that feel, teme?"
He got a 'hn' in response. Typical Uchiha. But he didn't seem too uncomfortable about the poking (he was probably more annoyed that he was being poked at all) so the chakra must not have done too much, if any, damage.
Kakashi spoke up then from behind Naruto, startling him. "Well that's a neat little trick there Naruto, but before you continue, let's go somewhere less open. Would someone mind helping us back to Mr. Tazuna's house please?" looking around, Naruto finally noticed the villagers surrounding them. When had they gotten on the bridge? Had Naruto been that focused on Sasuke? Apparently so.
They only needed one person, though, for Kakashi to lean on. Naruto was able to walk on his own, even though he felt like he wanted to just collapse where he stood and sleep for a month. Sasuke refused to be carried and so leaned on Sakura as he walked.
When they got to Tazuna's house, Kakashi was immediately taken to his room to crash. Naruto followed Sasuke and Sakura to their room and Sakura gently set him down, not wanting to hurt the love of her life any more than he already was. She smiled at him.
"I'm going to get the first aid kit, okay?"
Naruto spoke up. "You don't have to do that Sakura."
He was going to say more but his female teammate cut him off, glaring at him. "What do you mean I don't have to do that? If I don't tend to his injuries, he's going to get an infection!"
"I wasn't finished." The blond said, too tired to raise his voice like he wanted to and gave her a stern look to make up for his quietness. "I can just heal him like I did on the bridge; that way we won't waste our resources."
Sakura looked like she was about to protest but surprisingly, Sasuke interrupted her. "Just let him do it Sakura."
The pink-haired girl looked like she wanted to argue (what if that idiot Naruto did something wrong and hurt her beloved?) but she eventually resigned herself and stood up.
"Alright. I'll go check on Kakashi-sensei or something." Then she walked out of the room, leaving the two boys alone. Naruto gave an inward sigh before sitting in front of his teammate and got started.
Slowly, one by one, Naruto removed the needles from Sasuke's legs and healed them. Then Sasuke's torso, then his arm's and neck. He even healed the cuts on the teme's face. As time went on it became more difficult for Naruto to control Kyuubi's chakra. Several times, Naruto had to take small breaks before continuing and at one point Sasuke asked him a question and Naruto gave an answer before going back to the difficult task of healing him. Kyuubi's chakra was violent and Naruto sucked at chakra control in general but having an incentive not to mess up (hurting someone other than himself, even if it was the teme) was really helpful in making him concentrate.
By the time Naruto finished healing up the last hole he was exhausted and knew that if he tried, he wouldn't be able to move. And he still had to do the teme's back too. But he was almost finished. He just had to keep his eyes open and not fall asleep. He was almost finished. He repeated that phrase in his head like a mantra.
"Hey teme." He said in a tired voice, not even looking up to see if he had the others attention. "I need you to turn around so I can get your back." He did so and had Naruto been more aware, he would have been surprised by the Uchiha's compliance.
He didn't know how long it took to heal the teme's back. It could have taken 10 minutes or a day. All Naruto knew was that the second he finished healing the last of the wounds he was out like a light.
When Naruto had first come up to him telling him to sit down so he could try something out, Sasuke was slightly curious what the blond dobe had in mind. He debated whether or not he should do what the other said but decided to humor him, just this once. It would get him off his legs, at any rate. When the dobe told him that he was essentially a ginny pig, he began to regret his decision.
He turned his attention to blonds' hands and was startled to see them softly glowing red. How did he not notice that? It must have been the exhaustion coming in and the adrenalin leaving his system. Sasuke was now very wary of what Naruto was about to do. He had never seen red chakra before, never even heard of it. There was the blue chakra that everyone had and the green chakra that medic-nins used, but never red. And Sasuke remembered the serious look Naruto had on his face when he told Sasuke to tell him if it hurt. Sasuke had a right to be wary.
Sasuke watched as Naruto pulled the needle out and then pushed the red chakra in. He tried not the shift in discomfort. Whenever a medic-nin healed him, he always felt soothed by the foreign chakra. Soothing was the only way to describe it really. This, however, felt like he was being poked by thousands of tiny pinheads that had been sitting by the fireplace too long. It didn't really hurt but it wasn't the most comfortable feeling either.
Looking at Naruto, he was surprised to see him concentrating so hard. Sasuke had never seen him so focused before (not even when his precious ramen was involved). He didn't even think the blond noticed when the villagers came onto the bridge and surrounded them, whooping and hollering in victory or weeping at the loss of the bridge builders that Zabuza had killed earlier.
Watching Naruto, Sasuke couldn't help but stare at his sharp blue eyes and think of how much of a nice color they were. This wasn't the first time that thought crossed his mind. On the last day of the Academy, when they were in each others face, glaring at each other, Sasuke had noticed how beautifully blue the boys eyes were; however, those thoughts, as well at the memory of the kiss, were quickly buried. Now they had resurfaced and Sasuke wondered just what color of blue they were.
He was brought out of his thoughts when he felt the warm chakra leave and Naruto poke him were the hole once was. "How does that feel, teme?"
"Hn."
Kakashi started talking and Naruto finally took notice of the people around them. Someone volunteered to support the jounin and someone tried to carry Sasuke but he vehemently refused. The walk to the house was slow going but he didn't mind, it gave him a chance to regain some of his strength.
When they got to the house, Sasuke gladly sat down. Sakura gave him goo-goo eyes and said she would get the first aid kit when Naruto spoke up. Before he could finish, their teammate started yelling at him, only to be interrupted by the blond. She looked like she was going to argue some more but Sasuke decided to intercept before he got a headache. Besides, that red chakra could probably do more than anything she could do.
She left and Naruto continued pulling out he needles and healing the holes. Sasuke took this chance to stare at Naruto's eyes again. They were too dark to be baby blue or sky blue or any colors like that, but too light to be ocean or sea blue. Not enough green for the other two anyway. They weren't navy blue or cobalt. He thought of all the blues he could remember and when he still couldn't come up with a proper name, Sasuke realized how unique the dead-lasts eyes were.
Tucking those thoughts away, Sasuke turned his attention back to the blond. He had finished his legs and now working on his torso. The older boy frowned slightly. Naruto had a slight sheen of sweat on his face and his hands were shaking somewhat. How tired was he? He then remembered (yeah, just now) that it took a great deal of control and concentration to heal someone with chakra. Naruto must have been using ten times more effort than normal because of his short attention span and his below average chakra control. Yet, he was still healing Sasuke. He could only imagine the drain Naruto must have been feeling.
Sasuke couldn't help but wonder 'Why?' Why was Naruto trying so hard? Why was he pushing himself? Sasuke was Naruto's rival, they didn't even get along, so why?
Awe and jealousy coursed through his veins. He was in awe that Naruto, the dead-last dobe, could keep going and jealous that the dead-last dobe was strong enough to keep going. Naruto had managed to keep fighting when Sasuke had "died." Naruto had enough chakra to make so many bunshins and then heal him. He walked on his own on the way to the house (what happened to the needles in Naruto?) and then he continued to patch up his teammate. Still, it was pretty amazing that the dope had the will power to keep going, even though it was obvious to Sasuke that he was exhausted.
Curiosity nagged at him, "Hey dobe?" he got a grunt and Naruto stopped what he was doing and looked at him with weary eyes. Bags were already starting to form underneath them. "How did you defeat Haku?"
It took a second for his question to register, but when it did, Naruto seemed to wilt and looked down.
"I didn't. Kakashi did." And with that he went back to work, an obvious dismissal. Some of the jealousy left. So Naruto hadn't been able to beat him either, huh? That meant he wasn't too far ahead of Sasuke.
As it got later and later, Sasuke started getting worried for his teammate (not that he would ever admit that). His hands had started shaking more, he blinked and rubbed his eyes a lot, and he took more and more breaks. When Naruto finished closing the last hole he just sat there for a moment, his face blank. Then he snapped out of it and turned to Sasuke, asking him to turn around. He did what he was told and turned his back to the other.
Thirty to forty-five minutes later, Sasuke felt the other male heal the last of the wounds and the red chakra, which had at this point felt like pinheads that been next to the fireplace way too long, retreated for the final time. He heard a 'thump' behind him and Sasuke turned to see his teammate out cold.
The next day Kakashi woke up and after checking Naruto, assured his other two genin that, no, he wasn't going to die, he was just suffering from severe chakra exhaustion, and, yes, he was going to wake up eventually.
"By the way, Sasuke," Kakashi started, "how are you holding up? You're walking around, even after what happened yesterday." He looked at the Uchiha expectedly.
"Sasuke-kun is so strong, not letting his injuries keep him down." Sakura praised as she stared lovingly at him, hoping he'd acknowledge her for her words and see how much he loved her, admit his love and then they'd go off into the sunset and get married and have many pink haired Uchiha babies.
Sasuke mentally snorted in annoyance of the fan girl. Their teammate exhausted himself to heal him and she didn't even acknowledge him. It annoyed him that she was so proud of defending their client when all she did was stand there and hold a kunai while her teammates and sensei were fighting for their lives. Even though Naruto didn't help all that much in the fight, he at least bought Sasuke time and helped awaken his bloodline. He helped intimidate the remaining thugs while Sakura just stood there in fear and afterwards Naruto healed him while the most she could do was probably take the needles out, disinfect the wound and then bandage it up. Overall, Sasuke thought her useless and annoying.
"I'm doing fine." He answered. "Naruto healed me quite well, there's hardly a scratch left. He even healed the cuts on my face."
"The chakra he used was red, right? It didn't hurt at all?"
Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "Yes, it was red. It didn't hurt, it was just warm. Do you know something about it?"
The jounin rubbed his chin, "I have an idea but I would like to talk to Naruto first."
"Do you know when he's going to wake up?"
"Tomorrow maybe, or the day after. He is tired after all."
After that, the two left, leaving Kakashi to his thoughts. His gaze rested on the blond sleeping beside him. Even thought he didn't show it, he was curious and worried. He wondered about how Naruto was able to use the Kyuubi's chakra like that but worried about the effects it would cause on Naruto and whoever he used it on, like Sasuke. He was going to have to talk to Naruto about it later and inform the Hokage of this new development. And perhaps, come up with a cover story about the chakra for when, not if, when, people *coughSasukeandSakuracough* started asking questions.
Time skip – Chunin Exams. Naruto gets Orochimaru's seal on his stomach removed somehow sometime before Kakashi tries to contain the seal on Sasuke. Who, how, where and when the seal is removed is up to whoever takes this story idea (I haven't really read the manga or seen the anime, so I don't really know what happened). Naruto takes Sasuke aside and with Kyuubi's chakra removes, or burns off, the curse mark.
Sasuke stood across from Naruto. They were alone which Naruto was grateful for. He didn't want any interruptions from what he was about to do. His grip tightened around the piece of cloth in his hand.
He could feel the chakra emitting form the seal on Sasuke's shoulder. He wasn't all that good at sensing chakra, but even he could feel the dark-evil, oozing, slimy-chakra coming from his friend. Naruto didn't like it. At all. He wanted to remove it. He knew he couldn't, he didn't know enough about seals, but that didn't stop him from thinking about it. But then earlier he got an idea. It was incredibly risky and he almost dismissed it the moment he thought of it. But he couldn't let it go.
The idea was to force the snake man's chakra out. It would have to take a great deal of chakra and it would have to volatile too. Kyuubi had plenty of chakra to spare. Kyuubi's chakra was violent. The only problem Naruto had was the concentration it would have to take to keep it in one area and the effect it would have on Sasuke, whether it worked or not. Naruto had been spending the past couple of days practicing on focusing large amounts of the foxes chakra in one hand but he was still worried about hurting his teammate.
"Dobe." Sasuke said, breaking Naruto out of his thoughts. He sounded king of annoyed (more than usual, anyway). "Did you have a reason for bringing me here?"
"Eheh, sorry, I was just thinking."
"Try not to hurt yourself."
"Shut up, teme." He replied, but without his usual bite, something that did not go unnoticed by Sasuke. The slight smirk he had on his face faded. Naruto fidgeted and gripped the cloth again.
"There was something I wanted to try. I want to try and remove the seal on your neck."
Sasuke looked surprised, "Do you know anything about it?"
"Well, no."
"Then how do you plan to remove it?"
"I was thinking that if I forced enough red chakra in it, I could force out the chakra in the seal."
Sasuke nearly face palmed at that. Such a simple and basic plan, what more could he have expected from the dobe? "Dobe, this isn't just another wound like in Wave. I don't think you can just "heal" it."
"But seals only work if you put chakra in them, right? If I use the red chakra to force out the other chakra, then the seal won't work, right?"
Sasuke was silent for a good solid minute before he sighed. "Fine, we'll try it out. Go ahead." He pulled down his collar, showing the curse mark on the nape of his neck. Naruto fidgeted again, fiddling with the cloth in his hand.
"Um, Sasuke, I am going to warn you that this may hurt. A lot. So can you take off you shirt. I don't want your arm to get in the way. And could you put this in your mouth?" he held up the cloth.
The other boy raised an eyebrow. "Why do I need that in my mouth?"
Naruto sighed. "This cloth is for if, or when, you scream. I don't want people barging in wanting to see who was screaming bloody murder." He paused. "Actually, I want you to lay down for this. Just in case."
Sasuke looked like he was about to back out but then his face hardened in determination. He took off his shirt and grabbed the cloth, stuffing it into his mouth, and laid down on his back, looking at Naruto expectedly.
Naruto sat next the older boy, making sure he was in the best possible position to put his hand on the others seal. His hand hovered over Sasuke's shoulder as he closed his eyes and began gathering Kyuubi's chakra. More, more, still not enough, more, concentrate. When he had enough, he opened his eyes, put his hand on Sasuke's shoulder and pushed.
When Naruto first told Sasuke his plan, the Uchiha was skeptical but when along with it. The dobes very basic theory was sound, Sasuke had read something similar to that before but he doubted the blond could actually do anything. The chakra required for something like that was great and even though Naruto was a powerhouse, he didn't think he would have the chakra necessary to do it. But it wouldn't hurt to give it a shot.
When Naruto told him that it would hurt and to gag himself, he briefly thought about not going through with it but then his stubbornness kicked in. Besides, he highly doubted that removing the seal would be painless, heck even trying to seal the seal probably would've hurt like a bitch. "No pain, no gain," right?
Sasuke would never admit it, but when Naruto's hand started glowing red, a small bit of him felt afraid. Before, in Wave, Naruto's hand glowed softly in red, just like a medic-nin's, only red instead of green. Now, though, his hand wasn't glowing red, it was coating his hand. It was bubbling even!
Then Naruto's eyes opened and his hand shot out and then pain, Pain PAIN! Through the pain, a part of his brain heard a strange muffled sound which he would later realize was the sound of him screaming and he would be grateful to Naruto for the gag, as he was pretty sure that by the soreness of his throat he had been screaming very loudly. But now, the only thing he could thing about was that hot, burning pain in his shoulder. In Wave it felt like he was being poked by warm pinheads. This felt like someone had taken thousands of white hot kunai and were digging into his shoulder with them.
Even though it only lasted for about 3-5 seconds, it felt like an eternity to Sasuke and when the pain finally receded, the boy happily fell into the darkness of unconsciousness.
Time skip – After the preliminary round. Sasuke and Naruto continued. Sasuke will fight Gaara (probably a fight that's over used, but whatever) and Naruto will fight Neji (also a fight that's probably over used, but there's a reason for this one).
Sasuke and Kakashi are currently talking to the Hokage in his office about the curse mark that was put on Sasuke and its removal and Sasuke questions the other two about Naruto's red chakra. (I think the whole discussion sucks, but this is just a foundation for someone else to take and change into something they like)
"Sasuke, show him your shoulder," Kakashi instructed.
The genin pulled his shirt collar to the side showing a hand shaped burn mark where the curse mark had been but was now missing.
The Hokage stared at it with old eyes, puffing his pipe a bit, before letting out a sigh.
"And you say Naruto did this with his red chakra?"
"Yes sir." Kakashi replied. Sasuke just nodded.
"I see." He went silent and looked to be in deep thought. "If you haven't already, I would like for you to take Sasuke-kun to the hospital to take a look at that burn, just to see if it has caused damage we're not aware of. Later, I will summon you so I can have a friend of mine double check and make sure that the mark is gone. You may be dismissed."
Kakashi nodded and made to leave when, surprisingly, Sasuke spoke up.
"Wait."
Both adults looked at him curiously.
"Is there something you need Sasuke?" the Hokage asked politely.
"You know something about Naruto's red chakra, don't you?"
"You're curious about the red chakra?"
"Yes. I've been doing some research ever since I came back from Wave and I haven't found anything about red chakra. You two seem to know about it though. You're surprised that Naruto used it to heal. I would like some explanations."
The Hokage let out a puff of smoke. "Alright, I'll tell you, but know that not even Naruto knows this yet. There simply hasn't been a good time to tell him. That red chakra is Naruto's "bloodline" in a sense."
"Bloodline?"
"That's what we call it but we're uncertain. It's not in any records because only one other person besides Naruto had it. His mother.
"Now you must know that the red chakra is very vast and violent and very difficult to control. When Naruto's mother used it, it was only for large scale attacks and mass destruction. For Naruto to use it in small amounts and heal instead of harm is quite a feat."
"It is worrying though." Kakashi said. "The red chakra is naturally destructive and while Naruto's body may be especially adapted to it, it is unknown the effects it would have on others. Like you shoulder for instance. Which is why it's a good idea to get to the hospital."
Sasuke 'hned,' recognizing the obvious end to the conversation and left, Kakashi not far behind him.
Time skip – A day or two later. Naruto has already asked Kakashi to train him. Kakashi said no. Naruto goes off to think and train. Somehow or another, he comes up with the idea to sharpen his chakra to cut and uses leaves for practice. He also somehow finds out that when his clones pop he gets their memories. He makes a bunch of clones to cut the leaves. Kakashi is in the village at this time for some reason (the best reason I could come up with is him going to get a new Icha Icha book to read while he trains Sasuke) and sees Naruto training. He decides to take Naruto and train him with Sasuke.
Kakashi hid in a tree, eyes wide as he watched over a hundred Naruto's doing…something. He didn't know what it was, but Naruto was definitely trying hard and he must have been at it for a while. The blond was sweaty all over, his face was red from the sun, and he must have discarded his jacket long ago as all the Naruto's weren't wearing jackets but there was only one on the ground.
They all stopped and looked at whatever it was that was their hands (one hand was on top of the other so Kakashi couldn't see). A hundred Naruto's grinned widely before cheering, throwing up their hands and…leaves? Huh?
A pair close to him started talking and Kakashi leaned in to listen.
"Now what?"
"Let's try going bigger like a tree or someth-POOF!"
The field became covered in smoke as all the clones were dispelled. The smoke cleared and Kakashi could see the real Naruto standing proudly in the center, grinning from ear to ear. Then he started swaying and fell onto his hands and knees, panting. Kakashi began to rise form his crouched position on the branch, intending to take his youngest genin to the blonds house to rest, but stopped.
Naruto had gotten up and had his hands in his trademark kage bunshin seal. Kakashi crouched back down, wanting to see what the blond was planning to do now. There were many poofs as over a hundred Naruto's covered the field again. There was some bustle as they pared off into small groups of three or four, each group claiming a tree. Below Kakashi was a group of four clones.
"Alright, let's get started." One said.
"Right." The other three said and they all put their hands on the tree.
'What are they doing?' Kakashi thought.
A few seconds later the clones removed their hands and from where Kakashi was he could see that there were cuts in the tree he was sure hadn't been there before.
"Aww man."
"It's so small."
"Try and use more chakra or something."
"Let's try again."
And so they tried again. And again and again and again, each time at a different spot so they could compare their new cut with the previous one.
Kakashi couldn't help but stare in amazement. Naruto was doing wind chakra nature training on his own. And with his clones he was doing it at an astonishing rate too. Maybe…
Kakashi jumped down behind the four clones. "Yo."
All four jumped and yelled in surprise, swiveling around to look up at Kakashi with shocked faces. The commotion caused the other clones to stop and look, curious, but at seeing Kakashi they went back to work.
"Kakashi-sensei, you scared me!" Clone #1
"What are you doing here?" Clone #2
"Yeah, I thought you were training with Sasuke-teme." Clone #3
"Well, there was something I needed to get and when I was passing by I couldn't help but notice a little sea of Naruto's. Care to tell me what you're doing?"
"We're using chakra to cut stuff!" Clone #2
"Yeah, just in case we get to close to Neji. Punching him probably won't do much good but cutting him might." Clone #4
"And then once we're able to cut through an entire tree, we're going to go to Iruka-sensei and see if he has any long range jutsu." Clone #1
Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "A long range jutsu?"
"Yeah, 'cause if we get too close to Neji he'll just use his eyes and block off our chakra and then we'll wind up like Hinata." Clone #3
"So we came up with the idea to learn a jutsu that you can use from a distance." Clone #4
"And by the way, earlier when we were thinking what I knew that could help me fight Neji, we realized that you didn't teach us squat!" Clone #1
Kakashi opened his mouth to argue but stopped. Naruto was…right. Whenever he taught his team, he would give Naruto and Sakura instructions and then leave them to their devices while he trained Sasuke. Guilt welled up in his chest but he put it aside.
Kakashi smiled at Naruto. "Naruto, do you know what chakra nature is?"
"Chakra nature?" Clone #3
"Umm…" Clone #2
"Uhhh…" Clone #4
"Sounds kinda familiar. Can you give us a hint?" Clone #1
"There are five of them. Our country is named after one of them."
"Hmmm…" All four said.
"Oh!" they looked at Clone #2. "Fire, Earth, Wind, Water, and Lightning right?"
Kakashi smiled. "That's correct. Those are the five chakra natures. Now, of the five, which chakra nature does Sasuke have?"
The Naruto's seemed to deflate at the sound of Sasuke's name.
"What do you mean his chakra nature?" Clone #3
Kakashi mentally sighed. "Well, Naruto, all chakra has a nature to it. For example, a person with a lightning chakra nature would be better at lighting style jutsus than they would with any of the other four. Someone with a water chakra nature would be better at water style jutsus. So, of the five chakra natures, which one do you think Sasuke has?"
"Fire, right? 'Cause he uses it all the time." Clone #1
"Yes, that is Sasuke's primary chakra nature."
"Primary?" Clone #4
"Does that mean you can have more than one chakra nature?" Clone #2
"Yes but we'll get to that later." He said, dismissing the subject. "What I want to know is if you know what your chakra nature is."
"I don't think so. How do find out?" Clone #4
Kakashi put his hand in his pouch. "With this piece of paper." He pulled out a small square of seemingly regular sheet of paper. The four Naruto's looked at him, confused. "All you have to do," he continued as he handed Clone #3 the paper, "is push some of your chakra into the paper. The paper is made from a special tree that absorbs chakra so when you push your chakra into the paper it will react. If you have a fire nature, the paper will burn. An earth nature will make it crumble away. Wind nature will make it tare. Water will make it wet and lightning will make it crinkle up. Now, let's see what you have."
The clone looked at the paper and concentrated, forcing his chakra into the paper. A second later, the paper ripped cleanly in two.
"And there you have it. You nature is wind." Kakashi smiled. 'Just like your father.'
"Alright! Now what?" the four clones said in unison.
"Now you come with me. You're going to need proper training and cutting trees isn't going to help."
The four beamed at him and cheered.
"Woohoo! Alright, when do we go?"
He chuckled at his enthusiasm. "Dispel your clones and pack your bag to last a month. No ramen either, I will check. Come back as soon as you can."
"Sure thing!" there were four poofs as the clones dispelled and a second later the air was filled with yells and cheers before they all poofed away, leaving only one Naruto who was running to his jacket.
"I'll be back in a minute sensei!" And then he disappeared. Kakashi chuckled again.
Time skip – Shortly after the trip to Wave. Sasuke is still wondering what color blue Naruto's eyes are.
Sasuke was on his way home after doing some shopping. They had been in Wave country for a while (they had to stay for a week after the battle on the bridge because Kakashi wanted to make sure Naruto had fully recovered and because of the jounin's own laziness) and by the time Sasuke got home, all the food in the fridge and cabinets that could go bad, did, stinking up his entire apartment (1). He threw it all out, sprayed his apartment with an air sanitizer his nose could tolerate (he would never use Febreze or any of that other stuff, they smelled too much like the perfume his fan girls used and it gave him headaches (and Naruto wondered why he acted like an ass, he would too if he got headaches three times out of the week)), and then left to run some errands. Now he was heading home, dodging in and out of stores and alleys every now and then to avoid his over enthusiastic fan girls. Being away for long periods of time made them vicious.
Sasuke wasn't too far away from his apartment now. He was in an area of small shops and a few streets down was where the apartment complexes started. But just because he was almost home free it did not mean he let his guard down. The fan girls attack could come anywhere at any time. There! On the other side of the street were three of them, obviously searching for him. They hadn't spotted him yet, that was good, but he had to make a getaway before they saw him and alerted the rest of their kind of his location.
He quickly dodged into a small clothes store, not checking to see what it was called. Making sure he couldn't be seen if someone looked in the window, he glanced around. All around him were skirts and frilly tops and accessories. Great, he entered a store for girls. Hopefully none of his fans were in here.
Then something in the corner of his eye caught his attention and he tilted his head to get a better look. It was a skirt. But it wasn't the skirt that caught his eye, it was the color of the trim and flowers that did. Blue. Not just any blue, though, it was the same color as Naruto's eyes.
Putting the bags on his arm he removed the skirt from the hanging racket and went to the casher, hoping that whoever was there would know the color and not look at him funny. After all, he was a boy in a girls shop asking someone about a skirt.
He really hoped no one would catch word of this. He didn't want to know what his fan girls would think of this. What would his team say? He could already hear Naruto laughing at him.
The person at the casher was an old woman with grey hair, glasses, and a kind face. She looked up from her kitting when Sasuke approached and smiled.
"Is there anything I can do for you, young man?"
"Yes, please," that was his mother's teachings kicking in. "could you tell me what this color is?" he put the skirt on the counter and pointed at the trim and flowers.
"Such a pretty color. It's either azure or cerulean but they're both so similar it might as well be two names for the same color. It's a rare color, not seen very often in nature and you have to use other materials to make the dye. Not cheep at all. It was very popular several years ago because it was the same color as our beloved Yondaime's eyes."
Sasuke checked the price tag and, sure enough, the skirt was quite expensive. He hned. "Thank you. Have a nice day."
"You too, dear." She returned to her knitting and Sasuke put the skirt back where he found it before leaving the store (of course, not without making sure the coast was clear first) and walking home.
'So,' he thought, 'Naruto has cerulean/azure eyes. A rare color that people would pay a good deal of money for, he was born with. And the Yondaime too, apparently. I need to see if I can find a picture of him and see if they really look like Naruto's.'
(1) if you read the manga, in either the first or the second volume, it shows Sasuke's apartment. I don't know why he's not living in the Uchiha district, assuming it's still there. It was surprisingly messy, too.