"Kakashi-sensei, you're finally here! Have you decided what ninjutsu you're going to teach me?"
At Team 7's usual training ground, Naruto had arrived early to wait. When Kakashi appeared, he eagerly asked what ninjutsu he would be teaching him next.
"Sorry, Naruto. I still haven't decided what ninjutsu I should teach you."
"What?! Kakashi-sensei, how could you? You promised to teach me ninjutsu!"
Kakashi walked over and ruffled Naruto's hair.
"The main thing is, rather than learning new ninjutsu, I think you should get a proper grasp of basic chakra control, Naruto.
But I'm not that familiar with teaching it, so I found a specialist to teach you. Come on, I'll take you to meet him.
Once you've built a solid foundation, I'll teach you ninjutsu."
"Kakashi-sensei, you liar! You're going back on your word!"
Naruto was a little angry. Everyone said Kakashi-sensei had copied a thousand ninjutsu, yet he wouldn't teach him even one.
By comparison, Naruto felt that Himawari was much nicer to him. Not only had she been willing to teach him the Rasengan, an incredibly powerful ninjutsu that needed no hand seals, but she had also been willing to teach him the incredibly powerful-and incredibly complicated-Flying Thunder God.
Still, when Himawari had taught him before, she had also said his fundamentals were a little weak. Maybe he should go with Kakashi and take a look first?
He really didn't know what to do about his fundamentals.
His mother, Kushina, had taught him a lot, but as a descendant of the Uzumaki Clan, she usually preferred to solve things with overwhelming power.
She fought either with brute force and massive chakra reserves or with the Uzumaki Clan's innate abilities and Sealing Jutsu.
But Naruto didn't possess the Uzumaki Clan's innate ability, Mind's Eye of the Kagura, and