Naruto: A New Perspective

Chapter 11

Disclaimer:I don't own Naruto or this story would be true

"You want to what?"

"We want to train with you, Naruto." Sakura replied patiently, Aiko nodded. Naruto pouted, "I don't have time for extra team workouts, do extra stuff with Sasuke!"

"Naruto we used to train together and it was fine before..."

"I can't slow down for you guys anymore!" Naruto replied, frustrated. "You don't need me, Sakura-chan, Aiko-chan. If I train with you, my own training will slow down!"

"We'll do what you do!"

"You can cut a rock cleanly into eight pieces?"

Sakura's eyebrow twitched, "Don't get sarcastic you jerk! We're your team and we want to spend time with you. If all you're gonna do is train, then we will too!"

"Where's Sasuke?"

"At home." Aiko replied, "Resting, like you should. How is it that you can exhaust your chakra reserves and recover in one day, Naruto? It's insane what you do, yet you keep going."

"You're going to kill yourself." Sakura added.

"No I won't!" Naruto insisted without explanation, "Now come on, we can hang out later when I finish training!"

"I'll teach you the fire jutsu Kakashi-sensei taught me." Aiko suggested.

"I can't do stupid fire jutsu! Or water, or lightning!" Naruto scowled, "When you go through the same training as me for wind chakra then you can train with me!"

"Naruto..." Sakura sighed.

"Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

Suddenly one Naruto burst into twenty five and they all scattered, Aiko and Sakura frantically tried to find the real one, before Naruto went wherever his secret training area was. It had been nearly two weeks since Wave, and Naruto always insisted that he had to train after missions, and usually alone.

Kakashi had admitted that it could be dangerous for others to be around while Naruto tried to control his wind chakra. Naruto had seen the results of his training, pushing the limits of how easily he could control himself... often it got out of hand, he didn't want anyone to get in the way.

Atop of mastering wind chakra, Naruto also finished water rolling, which was basically rolling atop the water, getting used to letting out chakra at multiple points from his body. It came easily, although it took awhile to learn how to completely stay afloat on the water and not let any part of his body dip under the water.

Really it was only slightly harder than water walking had been, the reason it had taken so long was because Naruto kept his training focused on other things. First he had to get stronger, Sasuke had been able to dodge and block senbon easily because of his Sharingan activating. It also meant the Uchiha was again leaps and bounds ahead of him in taijutsu, and mopped the floor quite easily with him.

Sasuke had been awkward in his taijutsu before, now his movements were perfect with the Sharingan, automatically his hands blocked Naruto's attacks, and his legs seemed to move with their own volition, forcing the blond back and breaking his root, sending him stumbling.

In short, Naruto was outclassed. The only time he had beaten Sasuke was leading him into the woods and having his clones go crazy, setting traps, transforming into trees and bushes to attack the Uchiha in his blind spots. Unfortunately even then, Sasuke could see through the Henge unless it was being blocked by another object such as a rock or another tree.

It left Naruto frustrated; luckily he wasn't the only one. Only Kakashi was ahead of Sasuke now, even though he had taken to pulling out his own Sharingan to fight the boy, although it was more for tutoring in Sharingan use than anything else.