Soooo…. I was reading 'outfoxed' and I came upon a wondrous concept, the idea of using nature releases as attacks. I didn't really occur to me that Naruto was literally cutting a waterfall in two with nothing but a wind nature release, and then I thought a little further and realized just how deadly a martial art based around elemental releases would be. And so with out further ado.

The elemental Arts

"Get the hell out you damn-demon brat!"

A six year Naruto yelped as he slid painfully across the rock strewn ground. The Chunin with arms still outstretched from launching the blond child out the double doors. The ninja sneered and yelled, catching the attention of many passerby's who as soon as they saw who was being yelled at, turned away, with muttering of 'demon', 'evil brat', and 'bout time', all ignoring the quivering Naruto, still reviewing an earful from the ninja who was starting to enjoy the feeling of support he was getting.

"-And if I ever catch you trying to sneak into the library again, I won't just stop at chucking you out! Ill make sure to leave you with a few kunai sticking out of some inconvenient places, ya get me brat?!"

The blond nodded shakily before darting into a nearby alleyway.

Coincidentally and because the author has declared it must be so for story progression, it just happened to be an alley where the library through out its older books…

Scene Break

The blond was mumbling to himself as he dug through the trash, occasionally tossing out various scrolls with a 'useless', 'to many words', 'too few pictures', 'too many pictures', before Naruto finally cried out in joy as he dicovreverd the scroll that he had been searching for.

A scroll with the steps for elemental manipulation detailed in a simple, step by step process, and on the back was a dirty, torn, and ragged chakra paper.

A shiver was felt up the back of a young Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, Neji Hyuga, and Kiba Inuzuka, it felt like someone had started dancing on their graves as in a corner of the village, Naruto began laughing maniacally as he read, eventually scuttling back to the dingy apartment he called home to train, his saddled feet silent as he avoided any interaction in his rush.

As he closed his new, and rather sturdy wood and steel reinforced door closed, he remembered exactly how he had gotten so interest in the exercises for master elemental release in the first place.

It had been almost sixth months ago, and a large group of ninja, mostly Chunin, with the odd Gennin and Jonin surrounding his house as he quivered inside. Thankfully, it had been on one of the days that the Hokage had decided to visit him, he had come along with couple bowls of ramen, arriving right as one of the Chunin kicked down his flimsy wooden door,

The hokage had set down the bag with the ramen bowls before flashing through hand signs, spamming jutsus that had Naruto watching in awe as the lighting crackled, fire flared, and duplicates of both weapons and men whistled and screamed through the air.

In the end Sarutobi gently picked up the two takeout bowls of Ramen and walked inside, and spoke, and laughed, and did everything in his power to distract Naruto as the bodies were quickly and quietly removed for an anonymous burial.

But now, with these instructions and a chakra paper, Naruto would be able to master elemental release, and he would try, he would work until he did so, until he had mastered to the highest level possible.

He would do it.

And he would never be weak again.

Scene Break

Naruto let out a calm breath as he focused on the leaf in his hand, he had been at this for months, trying to cut the leaf in two, his chakra paper had said that his chakra nature was wind, supposedly something that made the leaf cutting technique easier was mediation.

So. Why. COULDN'T. HE. DO. THIS!

He was about to throw the leaf away when suddenly he felt a gust of wind erupt from his palm, shredding the leaf into a dozen pieces.

Naruto stared at the leaf for a few moments before screaming in success. He frantically raced to his bedroom where the nature release scroll was enshrined to see what the next step was.

He paused as he looked at it.

Tree cutting? Huh…. If it had taken him two months to figure out leaf cutting, how long would it take to cut an entire tree?

Naruto slumped.

Time Skip

It had been just over a year since he completed leaf splitting. He had completed the tree cutting in actually the same time that he had completed leaf splitting, it had seemed that the hardest part of chakra manipulation had been actually forcing it out of his body.

Well, he had thought that until he caught to waterfall cutting, he had stalled completely and utterly. He had just a matter of months until he entered the academy, and he knew he had to complete the waterfall splitting exercise before he entered the academy.

Which in turn explains why he was panting on his hands and knees before a 12 ft waterfall that was stinging him with needle like droplets.

Naruto marshaled himself for one last try, swaying to his feet like he was drunk, he brought his hands to the waterfall and focused.

He forced his chakra out in an unceasing blade of wind that stopped the waterfall, and he held it, and held it, he split the waterfall, but then his vision swam, stars flying across his vision like comets as he fainted.

Naruto woke to find himself in a sewer.

One end of the sewer just seemed to continue on, into the distance, the other was a set of prison bars in a cell so huge that the young Naruto couldn't see the top. Naruto let out an involuntary yelp as a massively shadowed figure shifted, and a scarlet orb, an eye larger then the frightened child in front of him blinked open.

"At Last, my jailer comes to visit… How, wonderful."

Finis