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Team 7 had come back from completing another D rank mission, this time it was baby sitting. Due to not having Naruto with them, they were not permitted to partake in any missions higher than C rank. After completing the mission, team 7 was notified by the Hokage to speak with them.

"Kakashi, as well as Sasuke and Sakura. With the current absence of your team mate Naruto, we have decided it was in best interest to put in a substitute member in replacement." The Hokage informed the team, getting wary looks from Sakura and Kakashi while Sasuke stayed emotionless as usual. "You can come in now." He raised his voice for whoever he was talking to, to take action. In an instance, a boy jumped to the Hokage's side, leaning on one knee bowing to the Hokage.

"Sir." The boy said, still in his position.

"There is no need for that, please stand straight, Sai." The Hokage turned back to the 3 confused shinobi. "This is Naruto's replacement, your new team mate, Sai." They all greeted each other then the Hokage continued speaking. "Sai here, originally came from a secret branch in the ANBU called Root. As you know, ANBU members are specially trained to not portray any emotion. They do not have a name either and are assigned with code names they use to communicate with other members when on missions. In this case, due to this boy not having a name, we came up with 'Sai' for you all to communicate to him with. You'll have another D rank mission tomorrow however Sai will be apart of team 7. You'll continue doing these intermediate missions until you all are familiar with each others abilities, hopefully you all understand. I will assign you on higher ranked missions later on. You can count on that. That is all I have to say. Sai, you can join your new team for the afternoon and get to know your team mates better."

Kakashi said for the team to have the rest of the day off to spend time getting to know Sai. So far, Sakura wasn't liking him. "Hello? Anyone in there? Can you not hear me or something? Do you have a hearing impairment? Say something-"

"Please be quiet, you are giving me a headache..." Sai said to the pink haired girl emotionless and started walking ahead of the group then turned to face Sakura to finish his sentence. "...ugly." Sai continued to walk ahead then leaped away on the rooftops. Sakura stopped walking and was left gobsmacked from Sai's comment.

Sasuke saw Sakura's reaction after Sai's comment and showed a smirk on his face as he too, walked ahead of Sakura leaving her alone, still baffled at Sai's comment.

Naruto was back at the cave with Tobi who arranged for another member of the organization to go train Naruto. Deidara volunteered instantly, wanting to prove that his art was superior to any other of the member's abilities.

Naruto and Deidara went into an open area outside of a forest to train."Uh.. I can't do that." Naruto said awkwardly watching Deidara spit clay out of a mouth on his hand in disgust. Deidara had given him a handful of clay to work with but Naruto has just been molding it around through boredom.

"That's the way. Keep molding it until you get your desired shape to compel your art. Fine art is-"

"-the beauty of that single fleeting moment of explosion" Naruto and Deidara said in sync.

"You got it memorized, I'm proud."

"Well you did say it to me exactly 103 times today."

Out of nowhere, Tobi warped onto a tree branch above the two. "How is training, Naruto?"

Naruto walked away boredly and threw the clay in the air. He pulled the half-tiger seal. "Katsu." He said in a tedious attitude. The clay in mid-air exploded. Naruto continued walking away back to the cave.

'Now that is art, Tobi. The boy needs to know what art really is. Fine art is the beauty of that single fleeting moment of explosion." Tobi disappeared before Deidara could finish saying his famous quote.

Tobi reappeared in front of Naruto as the boy slumped against the wall with his arms crossed on his knees. Tobi grabs out a piece of paper and holds it in front of him. "Naruto, do you know what this is?"

Naruto stood up and had a closer look at the paper. "It's just... paper?"

Tobi ignored Naruto response and continued. "This is Chakra paper. To find out what affinity someone has, pieces of paper made from a special type of tree are used that react to even the slightest hint of chakra in any of a number of ways, depending on the nature latent in the chakra. If your chakra nature is fire, the paper will ignite and turn to ash. If your nature is water, the paper will become damp... Wind will split your paper into two, while the lightning will wrinkle it. Earth will turn the paper into dirt and crumble away. Do you understand Naruto? I've explained this to you because I think it's time for you to know which chakra nature you have so we can concentrate on justu in that nature. When you are ready take the paper from me."

Naruto walked up to Tobi and grabbed the paper from him. As he stood back, the paper started changing shape. "Is this the paper reacting to my chakra?"

"Yes."

As both intently payed close attention to the paper, the paper finally showed it's reaction.

"I see." Tobi finally spoke after seeing the paper. "Your nature type is Wind, so it's best to focus more on Wind based jutsu from here on out. Also, this will become important later on with Nature types, Naruto... Each Chakra Nature have their strengths and their weaknesses. Fire is strong against Wind but weak against Water. Wind is strong against Lightning but weak against Fire. Lightning is strong against Earth but weak against Wind. Earth is strong against Water but weak against Lightning, and Water is strong against Fire but weak against Earth. Keep this in mind when you're dealing with opponents.

The sound of Deidara's voice echoed through the cave, making both Naruto and Tobi to look behind them.

"Naruto... NARUTO? N-a-r-u-t-o. Where are you Naruto? I still have to tell you about the importance of the art... Ah there you are Naruto!" Deidara stormed up to Tobi. "Didn't you notice that we were in the middle of an important training session? Do you not know the importance of art? Hey, what are you doing...!" Tobi sucked Deidara in to the other dimension within him.

"Anyway Naruto, let's get going."

More talking I know, I guess I'm more of an informative person. I've put some alterations in as noticed with the appearances of characters earlier, so i can continue with the flow of the story. BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT. I need you guys to review and give me suggestions as well as answer these;

Should I make Naruto learn the wind jutsus which includes the rasengan, rasenshuriken etc? Or should I stick to something else. Please tell what would be nice for Naruto to use. This will play an important part throughout these upcoming chapters.

Also, Who should Naruto be partnered with in the future? Which Akatsuki member? If possible please add a reason why they'd be perfect to be partnered with him.

Please add other suggestions too please, I love using other people's ideas! x

I hope you're enjoying it so far, I enjoy the support.