Sorry it took me so long to update, my cat died. But what do you care! More importantly (sorry, cat), thanks a ton for the reviews. As one reviewer noted, I'm okay with criticism, as long as it's constructive, and so far, I have not seen one that was purely malicious in nature. Now then, this chapter will piss some of you off. That is both normal and expected, but before you hit the back button in disgust, read the bottom Author's Notes. I assure you, I have seen where fanfics go wrong with these things, and I intend to learn from their mistakes. I suppose you'll have to trust me. Also, feel free to message any mistakes you find to me, I wrote this pretty late over the course of several nights, so there may be mistakes my tired eyes just cannot see)

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I do not own Naruto.

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Naruto walked behind Kakashi as they continued to walk towards Kakashi's apartment. Naruto was looking around, curious about how ninjas lived, but he was surprised when he saw that it was almost exactly the same as civilian apartments;. In fact, the only real difference was that the apartments were smaller. Naruto supposed ninja must spend less time at home than most civilians, but he was still surprised that ninja were not accommodated better. However, he shrugged it off; it really wouldn't matter for Naruto, he was here to learn, not live, though it seemed the two went together in this case.

Naruto looked up at a particularly tall apartment complex, just as Kakashi turned to enter it.

"Come on, Naruto, this way," Kakashi said, gesturing Naruto to head inside. Naruto just shrugged and complied, walking in and then following Kakashi up the stairs. Though perhaps dingier than the apartments in the residential district, were clean and prim. It was all colored the same indistinct pale white color, and Naruto could see that, despite its age, the building had been well maintained. Kakashi opened the door to his apartment and guided him in.

Naruto was surprised, though he didn't express it. This apartment had almost nothing in it of sentimental meaning; it had a bed, a kitchen, and that was about it, except one picture on a dresser, though Naruto couldn't make out the faces. It felt like a hotel room, as if it was ready for the next owners to move in. However, Naruto shoved these thoughts from his mind and focused, turning towards Kakashi and waiting for him to say something.

"Well, Naruto, I know it isn't much, but I'm gone for long periods of time, so I don't really do anything here but eat and sleep..." Kakashi said chuckling. Naruto nodded; he could respect that. Kakashi was focused on his goals, whatever they may be, and did not care for petty aesthetics in his apartment, an attitude Naruto reminded himself to adopt from his new sensei. After all, such things were not subjects to be studied or contests to be won; it held no purpose.

"Kakashi, where will I sleep and when shall we begin training?" Naruto asked, not beating around the bush. Kakashi could not help but be surprised. He had expected for an orphan to be curious about his new home and 'father', but Naruto was getting straight to business; this was where he slept, and Kakashi was his sensei.

"Well, Naruto, I'll go and pick up a futon for you to use tonight. For now, get used to the place, and make yourself something to eat. Training will begin tomorrow, though we won't get serious until I test you…. wait. Do you know how to make any dishes?" Kakashi suddenly asked, surprising Naruto. He thought about it and almost felt like hitting himself in the face. Of all the useless things they taught there, preparing food was taught almost near the end, and Naruto had left before they had even begun.

Naruto adopted his best embarrassment pose, one he had not used often in the past, and put one hand behind his head and said, "No, I hadn't learned it yet. Will that be alright, sensei?"

Kakashi frowned, invisibly, for a moment before his visible eye curved upwards in a smile. Kakashi said, "To be honest, Naruto, I only know how to warm up foods, I usually just buy what I need from shops. What do you say we go out to eat tonight, and I'll buy a cookbook along with a futon for us to learn from later?"

Naruto, deciding that cooking would have practical survival purposes, agreed and waited behind Kakashi, prepared to leave to go out to eat whenever he was. Kakashi's eye once again curved upwards once again before saying, "Let's go then!" and teleporting out, in what Naruto recognized as a shunshin. For a moment, Naruto could not help but be surprised. Then, he became angry, realizing his sensei, in what must have been a joke, had left him inside. Well, he would show Kakashi! His natural competitiveness flaring up, desperate not to be shown up, though he knew he was outclassed, he mimicked the handsign and chakra control he had felt other ninjas use when they teleported. He imagined himself outside, and then released his chakra. And then came a lurching feeling…

Naruto began throwing up, eyes still closed. He had no idea where he was. Suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder and opened his eyes to see Kakashi behind him.

"First time, eh? It's normal, Naruto, to feel sick the first time you use shunshin. I'd say to wait before eating, but now you must be even hungrier!" he said, while helping Naruto to his feet. Naruto nodded and followed Kakashi, though ninja in the street were blanching at what had been left behind; both Naruto and Kakashi had forgotten to clean up Naruto's bile, and it remained there until a considerate ninja used a small Water Bullet jutsu to clean it up.

Kakashi was surprised. Though Naruto was not used to doing a shunshin, he had perfectly imitated a move Kakashi had used just seconds before, though Kakashi realized that it was unlikely that it was the first time Naruto had seen a shunshin, it was a very common jutsu. Kakashi decided to focus on the meal, his first meal with his sensei's son! He would focus on the training and questions tomorrow. Besides, it was fun watching the ever serious Naruto stumble like a drunk man. Though Kakashi was careful to keep a straight face as Naruto struggled against his temporary loss of coordination.

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Sitting down in an average looking restaurant, Naruto looked at the menu. Fortunately, his vision had mostly cleared up by now, though he still felt a bit funny. However, he had learned something important from that last attempt; unlike a kawirimi, in which the teleport was simply a replacement of him and another object, the shunshin put him into an entirely new place in which there had been nothing but air a moment before That gave a strange sensation that Naruto would have to investigate later.

Naruto was eating his meal, a meal that bore a close resemblance to the orphanage food. He was having a hard time shaking off the subconscious food preferences he had picked up at the orphanage. Kakashi was also eating, or coming as close as possible without letting food visibly enter his mouth. The food was disappearing and he was getting full, but Naruto could not catch the steps in between. Naruto just assumed he was eating and let it go.

They were almost done when three men walked to the table from the bar they had been at before. Though Naruto was unaware, these men wire Shikaku, Choza, and Inoichi. Naruto continued eating, while Kakashi turned ti face the men.

"Yo," Kakashi calmly said.

"Hello, Kakashi. What's up with the kid?" Inoichi asked, amused.

"Yeah Kakashi, you know if you need drinking buddies, we're always here!" Choza said, jokingly.

"Yes, well…" Kakashi started awkwardly, before clearing his throat and continuing. "This is Naruto Uzumaki, and I adopted him."

Shikaku began to choke, before asking, "How can that be? How will you take care of him when you're an Anbu? Besides, why? No offense, errrr… Naruto" Shikaku added the last part out of respect to the boy, who had finished his food and, while appearing uninterested in the conversation, was not making any attempt to disguise the fact that he was listening.

"Well, you see, the two questions go right along with each other. I'm retiring from Anbu, and repaying a favor I owed to the orphanage by raising this boy during my time off from required jounin duties," Kakashi responded. Naruto had no reaction to this, though the three men were surprised.

"Why Kakashi? You had such a promising future in Anbu!" Inoichi asked, clearly a bit frustrated that a prodigy like Kakashi was retiring so quickly from Anbu service.

"Come on guys, don't let it bother you. I'll explain more later, okay? For now, I need to get Naruto a futon and get him to bed, he must be tired after all that's happened today, right Naruto?" Kakashi asked/said while nudging Naruto to get up. Naruto was not tired in the slightest, but understood his function as an excuse, and nodded a thank you to Kakashi before bowing to the three men and leaving with Kakashi already out the door.

"Can you believe that, you guys? What is this village coming to? And what do you think will happen to that poor kid?" Choza asked his friends.

"I don't know. Though I'm almost concerned enough to bother finding out," Shikaku responded, his friends realizing that such a level of concern was rare in Shikaku. Though he was always looking underneath the underneath of the underneath, and his friends rarely knew what he was thinking.

After picking up a futon and cookbook, a rather uneventful process, though the shopkeeper was surprised when Kakashi bought a cookbook, and people were surprised to see a young boy with Kakashi. Eventually, they made it back to Kakashi's apartment and entered, where Kakashi threw the futon on the floor, said goodnight, and went to sleep. Naruto looked at the futon and then at himself. He needed a shower before going to bed, and Kakashi had, rather uncooperatively, turned out the lights already. Sighing, he upped the chakra going into his eyes until he could guide himself around. He supposed that if that was the worst of the quirks Kakashi had to bother him with, it wouldn't be so bad. Though Naruto could not shake off the feeling that it was going to get worse…

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Naruto woke up the next morning at 8:00 AM, the same time he had all those years at the orphanage. Old habits really did die hard. However, he expected Kakashi was already out and about; he had noticed that the ninja district was always busy, even when people in the residential district were still asleep. He went through his morning routine, having set up the night before, and then went into the kitchen, only to find that there was no food. Naruto frowned and his stomach growled, both of them disappointed. Naruto walked into Kakashi's room to find that the masked man was still asleep. Naruto nearly groaned; he suspected that Kakashi was a lazy ninja. Rather than press the matter and possibly irritate his sensei by waking him up, Naruto opened up the cookbook and flipped to a random page. Pulling the necessary ingredients out of the refrigerator, he prepared the meal. It was a simple as that, instructions were followed; he didn't see why cooking was hard. Naruto ate and then sat and waited. And waited. And waited. Eventually, realizing Kakashi was not about to wake up, he started meditating. About an hour later, Kakashi woke up and went through his morning routine, only to smell food. He then hustled through his remaining preparations before running to the kitchen and stuffing his face. Naruto stopped meditating and then looked at his sensei expectantly.

"Yeah, Naruto, this food is great! I thought you couldn't cook!" Kakashi said happily.

"I used the cookbook. When will training begin, sensei?" Naruto said, not about to engage in pleasantries.

Kakashi finished his meal and then said, "Right now. Come on, follow me to a training ground."

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The two walked along the streets, Kakashi waving and saying hi while Naruto followed silently behind, looking straight ahead. Naruto had made a game out of guessing ranks; he would close his eyes and sense the chakra around him and try to guess the ninja ranks of everyone near him. He would then open his eyes and see how well he did. Naruto continued playing until they reached the training field. Once there, Kakashi sat down and motioned for Naruto to follow suit. Naruto swiftly complied.

"Well, Naruto, since we'll be living together let's introduce ourselves. I'm Hatake Kakashi. I like this book, I dislike those who dislike this book, and my goal for the future is to get the sequel to this little book," Kakashi said while holding up his Icha Icha Paradise book.

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki. I like chakra and winning. I don't like…. well, losing, I suppose. I don't really have any goals for the future," Naruto said.

Kakashi though about what Naruto said. He was unhappy that Naruto had no goals and so few things he liked, but he looked at the silver lining; he basically had no dislikes. Apathetic was better than sadistic.

"Alright, Naruto. To get a basic feel for your abilities with chakra, I want you to explain to me how you managed to imitate the Water Dragon jutsu and the shunshin," Kakashi said, finally asking the question that had been on his mind since the morning before.

"I thought it was the same for everyone else. I really can't describe it. I don't memorize the handseals, but I see the chakra as it goes through the jutsu. Well, I don't see it… I kind of know where it is though. I've thought about what I'm doing before, and there's no word for it. I just know what the chakra is doing," Naruto attempted to explain.

Kakashi once again thought. The fact that he didn't see the chakra relieved some of Kakashi's worries; if he had a doujutsu of some kind it would mean the Hokage lied to him, since neither Minato nor Kushina had one. However, it didn't explain whether Naruto perhaps had a new kekkai genkai or something of that kind. Kakashi decided he would test Naruto's blood for it the next time Naruto was hospitalized, though he almost slapped himself for that. It was the first way of training, and Kakashi was already thinking about hospitalizing the poor kid.

Throughout this, Naruto just stared at Kakashi, as if wondering what he was thinking about. After a while, he noticed that Kakashi had put Icha Icha Paradise on the ground while he was thinking. Naruto decided to look at it; he wanted to know what made it so important to his sensei.

By the time Kakashi awoke from his reverie and began to talk again, it was too late. Naruto may not have understood what the book meant now, but he was impressionable, and it would be obvious to him later. Ignorant of this, Kakashi decided to get Naruto started.

"Well, Naruto, how are you in the other aspects of being a ninja? Taijutsu, genjutsu, or anything else you can think of," Kakashi asked.

"I know only the basic of taijutsu, and I know nothing of genjutsu," Naruto replied. "What is it?"

"Ahhh, genjutsu is the ninja art of controlling what another person perceives, it is related more closely to ninjutsu than taijutsu. But let's ignore that for now, let's see how fit you are. Sprint in circles around this training field until you can no longer move," Kakashi said, sitting down by a tree and beginning to read.

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Naruto did as he was told and started to run. Meanwhile, Kakashi read, read, and read some more. Eventually, he flipped to the final page of the book and sighed happily, having thoroughly enjoyed his reading. He looked up at the sky and saw that it was dark, probably past 8:00 PM. Naruto had begun running almost six hours before. Kakashi looked around the fringes of the circle looking for Naruto when he felt a large chakra source heading towards him. Kakashi shot up and looked around, only to see that Naruto was running towards him from the opposite end of the circle. Kakashi stared at the boy; he had been running for six straight hours and was still letting off that kind of chakra?

"Hey, Naruto, you feeling okay?" Kakashi asked nervously.

"Yes, sensei, I feel good. In fact, I feel better now," Naruto responded.

Kakashi could barely wrap his head around the amount of chakra Naruto had; jounin level, and while not high jounin level, it was definitely not low jounin level. While Naruto might have trouble developing the mental side of his chakra, the physical side would go up by leaps and bounds. Kakashi then focused on the second part of what Naruto had said. Was he feeling better now because he had let most of his chakra out? Perhaps his small chakra pathways had been stretched, and the pressure was now being loosened. Maybe Naruto would feel even better if he just shoved the rest of it out. It would require high chakra control, but Kakashi supposed Naruto could handle it, if he could make a Water Dragon.

"You feel better, eh? Well then, try this. Focus your chakra around the tenketsu of your body. Then connect these tenketsu. Put all of the chakra you feel safe putting into your tenketsu there," Kakashi advised.

Naruto complied then waited.

"Now then Naruto, just let it go from your body," Kakashi said calmly.

The effects were immediate. Blades of grass grew, the earth rose slightly, the water lapped wildly, ice was forming from the water stuck on leaves in the trees, static discharges went off in the air, the wind howled, and the temperature went up a few degrees. Kakashi's eyes widened as he tried to figure out what to do. Suddenly, everything stopped as Naruto sat down smiling.

"You were right, sensei, I feel very relaxed," Naruto said, smiling.

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Kakashi nodded dumbly and then gestured for Naruto to follow him. He went to the ninja supply store and whispered to the clerk. He was handed a package and Kakashi paid. Kakashi went home and Naruto diligently followed, though he secretly wanted to complain about the lack of food; he hadn't eaten since breakfast!

Once home, Kakashi ripped open the package and took out a deck of cards. However, these cards were all blank. Kakashi took one out and held it in front of Naruto.

"Last thing for today, Naruto. Channel some chakra into this card," Kakashi said, with no emotion.

Naruto, a bit confused, took the card and then said, "Wait, I got one of these before in a scroll the Hokage gave me! I channeled chakra through it, though it didn't do much…"

"Just try again," Kakashi demanded, not capable of accepting that the result was as Naruto said.

Naruto did as told and was unsurprised when the card, upon receive his chakra, began to crackle mildly with electricity before becoming a bit damp.

"See, Kakashi. It doesn't do much. What does it mean?" Naruto asked.

Kakashi looked dumbfounded. One might think the absence of a strong affinity would be disheartening, but not so. The fact that his chakra had demonstrated a fairly large natural affinity for all the elements earlier was shocking. The fact that he had controlled elements which he was not even dominantly affinitied towards was far more impressive. Kakashi almost shuddered to think about the potential Naruto had for all the elements, nonetheless lightning and water jutsu.

That elements could only be controlled through kekkai genkai or affinities was a myth. Chakra did not discriminate between the elements; it controlled all of them equally. It was simply that controlling a complex combination of elements, such as wood or ice, was more than humans without the aid of affinities or bloodlines could handle. Any kage could, after pumping out all their chakra at once, make a tree grow a few inches, or make a flower bloom. It was simply that the Shodaime Hokage could do so with minimal chakra and effort that made it so amazing.

The fact that Naruto, a five year old with underdeveloped chakra, could use the remainder of his large supply of chakra to do something almost as pronounced as that showed he had an unnatural tendency towards chakra in general. It was astounding. Of course, Kakashi understood that Naruto would never be as proficient in wood as the Shodaime, or ice as someone with a Hyouton bloodline. However, his control over the remaining elements would be superb, and, with proper guidance, he could learn some basic jutsu from either wood or ice, or perhaps make his own combination of elements! Of course, this was far easier said than done. Users of these elements was rare, and teachers rarer. But it was that Naruto had the potential of doing any of this at all at 5 years old that was amazing. He was certainly not a prodigy in the same way as Itachi, born with godlike reflexes, speed, and intelligence. He was a prodigy in that all requirements of being a ninja he was a genius. In chakra capacity, control, reflexes, intelligence… he was not a master of one, but of all. And Kakashi would do whatever it took to get his sensei's son to the peak of his potential.

'You had an amazing son, sensei,' Kakashi thought, with stars in his eyes.

It was only when he smelled food that he awoke from his reverie, which he noticed he was having an awful lot of today, and stormed into the kitchen, starving.

"I got tired of waiting, sensei," Naruto said with a small grin.

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Yes, Naruto is capable of controlling every element, including mokuton (which I just refer to as wood). However, no yelling that it's a kekkai genkai, or that it is OP or impossible. In my fic, chakra is just life force; there's no logical reason for it to not be able to control some things when used by some people, and other things with other people. In my fic, bloodlines only give people the capability to effectively use these elements, since practical use of an element as complex as wood or ice is impossible for normal ninja.

It is not OP on Naruto for the same reason. Sure, he CAN use it. But why bother, when he's so much better at the simpler five elements? And even better with his main two, electricity and water. For sneak attacks making a vine shoot out is great, for battles, not so much.

As for chakra capacity, Naruto is maxed out on knowledge. He'll be kage level with chakra by the time he's 15+, I'll tell you that, but he will never reach infinite-chakra levels. He can now only improve the physical side of his chakra capacity, not the mental. (He maxed out on mental because his understanding of the chakra in him and around him is so great)

As for whether he can see chakra or not. He cannot see it, but it's also more then feeling it. Because it exists outside of our comprehension, it's impossible to describe. Kind of like when you feel like something is going to happen, and it does seconds later. If someone asked how you knew, you would not be able to find the right words. You just did. In the same way, Naruto feels the chakra around him. Feeling the chakra is not enough alone for Naruto to get a juts right on his first try. Be fair, water ended up being one of his main elements, making the water dragon much easier. And as for shunshin, he'd seen it hundreds of times before, just never tried it.

Is Naruto OP? Maybe compared to Academy students, yes. But with people like Itachi, Pein, and Madara in existence, you need to be a prodigy to make it into the big times; Naruto has only what he needs. In addition, without straight up cheats like the Sharingan or shadow clones, Naruto only learns jutsu at an advanced rate; he won't know 1000 jutsu by the time he's 12, but he'll know 50 pretty well. Oh, by the way, Naruto will use clones of all kinds, but he will not use the knowledge cheat on shadow clones. It's all well and good that people manage to abuse that trick, but I hate it. If it exists for Naruto, it should exist for everyone else too. Why shouldn't everyone who knows how to use shadow clones have perfect chakra control, if it works so well for Naruto? Because Naruto can make 10000 clones? Cool, that was an inventive loophole.

On to the stuff about the story.

Am I slowing down? Yes, but not as much as I feared.

Will there be more people Naruto interacts with soon? Maybe not in the next chapter, but yes, definitely soon.

Will the jutsus ever be in Japanese? Yes, absolutely, when one of two things happen. 1: I get a beta that will help me out there. 2: I'll do it by the 6th or seventh chapter the latest, beta or no. I won't make you go longer than that with English names, especially since this fic is ninjutsu heavy.

No more honorifics? Yup, as a reviewer pointed out, I really abused them. Reading Naruto fanfics is no excuse for learning the proper way to use them, and I'm not going to insult a language just because I'm low on time.

Naruto's main affinities are lightning and water, that's final? Yes, though he WILL use any element that is appropriate for the situation, as any decent ninja would.

Sorry for the super long A/N, now on to the final bit, polls!

Pairing: Graded by % for convenience, based on quality and number of requests.

No Paring: 60%

Naruto/Ino: 20%

Other: 20%

Leaning towards no pairing.

Favorite country: Kirigakure, whatever you want to call Water Country (so far). Good to know.

Finally, since there will always be complaints, I'l give you guys the final say. Should Naruto be able to use all the elements, though not really efficiently for the tough ones, or should he be limited to the basic five? Up to you guys.

Once again, I'm sorry about the long Author's Notes. Thanks for the reviews and sticking with me! (If you see typos/plot contradictions, feel free to message me about them, even if you don't want to beta for me or anything. They bother me too. I'll even fix and update my older chapters)

~MadDiction