Kakashi-Sensei, Yamato-San, and Naruto were talking over by the waterfall. Yukino looked to Sasuke who looked interested in what they were talking about. She looked back at the group. She didn't care as much about Naruto's training; but Sasuke and Naruto had been rivals since the academy.

Something was happening now. Yamato had moved back towards the waterfall and sat down on the ground. It was too far away to see what he was doing exactly. Suddenly a circle of wooden fox-like candles came up from the ground; standing about 5 feet tall. Yamato was extending his right arm out towards Naruto and Kakashi.

"What?" Yukino asked, it seemed to be the popular word for her today.

Sasuke ignored her, not on purpose. He was actually interested in what Naruto was about to do. Suddenly Naruto did his clone jutsu, creating thousands of copies of himself. They all rushed a single tree and before another second could pass; the tree was bare of all its leaves.

The Narutos all spaced themselves out and held their closed hands before them. Shouting out loud, they were concentrating on doing something.

A half hour passed, still nothing changed in the training.

Sasuke chuckled to himself. He realized now what Kakashi was trying to teach him. Naruto would never learn the change in chakra nature, even with all of his clones.

Yukino turned to him, "What is Naruto doing?"

One of the Naruto ran over to Kakashi now and they were talking. After a few minutes that Naruto ran off someplace. He seemed excited. The rest of the Naruto were still doing the same thing as before.

"Kakashi is trying to teach Naruto the change in nature for chakra." He finally explained.

"Chakra change in nature?" Yukino was a little lost.

Before Sasuke had a chance to explain it, all the Narutos stopped what they were doing to look at one another. "OH I get it!" they all explained as they went right back into training.

"Everyone has a chakra nature; which is one of the elements." Sasuke started explaining. It seemed nothing new would be happing with Naruto for awhile. "There's water, fire, wind, lightning, and earth. Everyone has at least one type, and higher shinobi have two or more. Each element is strong against one other element, and is weak as well against another element."

He continued, "It goes in a circle. I have fire element; so if one of my fire jutsu was going against someone's water jutsu, I'd have a higher chance at loosing. I'd have the upper hand against someone using wind jutsu."

"Oh, I guess that makes sense." Yukino agreed.

Before they could get onto another subject, all the clones disappeared leaving the original Naruto. Kakashi was there quickly and caught the teen before he could fall. Yamato sighed as he relaxed.

Naruto stirred right away and looked to be yelling at Kakashi. Kakashi just went back to his book as Naruto made his copies again and went back to training.

The Narutos all trained for an hour, seeming to actually make progress. The clones disappeared again as the original was left. Again Naruto had passed out and was about to fall. And yet again, Kakashi was there with his back to catch the teen. Yamato relaxed again, but got back into position as Naruto stood back up and was at it again.

The third time was a charm. After shouting "We did it!" loudly and returning to the original, Naruto collapsed yet again. This time Kakashi carried him over to a nearby tree and placed him under it. Yamato relaxed, and actually left the circle of candles and walked over.

"Come on," Sasuke said as he stood up. Yukino followed him over to the group.

"He should be out for awhile," Kakashi explained.

"So what's with all the clones?" Yukino asked, "Isn't Naruto just wasting chakra?"

Kakashi chuckled, "It's a form of training only Naruto can do. He believes he has to catch up to Sasuke."

"Catch up?" Yukino questioned him, "Is Sasuke really that much stronger than him?"

Sasuke actually gave the group one of his cocky half-smiles.

"I don't know, but Naruto seems to think so." Kakashi answered.

Before anything more could be said, Naruto was waking up. "I did it Kakashi-Sensei!"

"You're ready for the next step." Kakashi turned to his student, "The next step will be to use your wind chakra to cut that." He pointed over to the waterfall Yamato had made hours previously.

Yamato sighed as he walked back over to his circle. After creating a bridge between two trees for Naruto, he re-extended his arm towards the waterfall. Ready to resume training; he did know Naruto after all.

Naruto was excited again. He ran towards the waterfall, taking off his jacket on the way. After creating nine clones, they jumped up onto the bridge and started working.

Yukino had to pull herself back from watching Naruto, "Kakashi-sensei, how can you cut water?"

He leaned up against the tree and pulled out his book once again. "It takes a good control of chakra and change in nature."

"Oh, that again." Yukino complained. She had learned enough for one day. She joined Sasuke under the tree where Yamato had made a wooden bench.

After a few more hours of training, Naruto stopped and turned towards the group. "Kakashi-sensei!" he was complaining. "Wouldn't it be faster if I used more clones?"

Kakashi just looked over to Yamato, who sighed in return. He retracted his hand and did a few signs. Afterwards; the waterfall grew ten times its original size, and along with that so did the bridge. Afterward Yamato was struggling to catch his breath. Kakashi failed to notice his strain.

"Keep up the good work, Yamato-San!" Yukino cheered the poor guy on from the sidelines. He turned around to give her a thumbs-up before sticking his arm out towards Naruto again.

Naruto created more clones, and went back to training.