Naruto: Winds and Changes

Sasuke was held his hands up to catch the ball. However, Kakashi decided now was the time to interfere. Catching the ball he threw it lower then Sasuke had his hands, hitting the raven haired boy in the stomach. "What the hell dobe!" Sasuke shouted, once again Naruto got the ball thrown at him harder than last time. This time it was thrown to fast for the blond to catch and he ended up getting smacked in the head.

"Gah!" Naruto held onto his head as the ball rolled away. "Damn it Teme! I didn't throw it that hard!"

Kakashi picked up the ball and handed it too Naruto. "Try again Naruto, and this time try not to hit someone."

Naruto frowned as he wondered how to throw the ball. It was obvious that neither Sakura nor Sasuke seemed to have gotten the idea of using chakra to enhance their hearing, otherwise they would have been able to catch the ball. That meant he needed think of a way to make it easier. "Sakura, I'm gonna roll the ball to you." Naruto said as he rolled the ball to where his nose told her he was.

Sakura bent down as the ball rolled to her, she missed as it hit her feet, but at least he didn't hit her. "Sasuke-kun, I'm rolling it to you." Sakura said, following Naruto's example for the moment.

Hmmm. Kakashi said, actually impressed with the innovative way to complete the exercise. Now this is an interesting way to do this, I never thought of completing the exercise this way. It seems Naruto is full of surprises.

Kakashi let them do it this way for a while before interfering again. This time when Sasuke rolled the ball to Naruto, Kakashi picked it up and threw it, hitting the blond in the head.

"Hey! What the hell teme! You're supposed to roll it!" Naruto yelled as he landed on his butt.

"What are you talking about dobe." Sasuke grunted. "I did roll it."

"Then-" Naruto paused for a moment as he realized what was going on. "Kakashi!"

Kakashi chuckled. "It seems you've caught on. You three can take your blind folds off, the exercise is over." Kakashi said as he picked up the ball. The three genin took off their blind folds off. "Now who can tell me what the exercise was about?" he asked, looking at the three of them.

For a moment no one answered. "It was an exercise on teamwork." Naruto said.

"Yes." Kakashi nodded. "But there was more to it than that."

"Umm… a teamwork exercise on trust?" asked Sakura, a little unsure of her answer.

"Close." Kakashi said. "Be more elaborate in your explanation."

Sakura tried to think about it. "You wanted us to come up with a way to trust our teammates by passing along that ball. We were blind folded because if we could see the ball it would have made the exercise pointless, since it would no longer require us to have faith in our team?" she asked tentatively.

"Very good. And why did I interfere?" asked Kakashi.

"Because you wanted to sow dissension among the ranks." grunted Sasuke, not wanting to be upstaged by the walking brain that was Sakura.

"Excellent, well done you three." Kakashi gave them an eye smile. "Now tomorrow we'll meet here again to go on more missions."

"But it's still early." whined Naruto. "Aren't we going to do more training?"

Kakashi shook his head. "No, I feel you guys deserve a break."

He had actually thought about teaching them some more, but he was not really sure what to teach them yet. And he had no clue what he should teach them. With Sasuke being something a loose cannon he figured the best thing to do would be to teach team work; that way Sasuke would be able to ease in with the others and they could work more efficiently as a team before he taught them anything.

Yeah right. Naruto thought bitterly, his right eye twitching. More like you're too lazy to actually truly train us.

"I'll see you all tomorrow team." Kakashi said as he disappeared via Sunshin.

With Kakashi gone Sakura turned to Sasuke. "So Sasuke-kun, would you like to go on a date with me?"

"No." Sasuke said, walking off. Sakura watched him go with slumped shoulders. She turned around to Naruto, wanting to make herself feel better by denying him the chance for a date.

However, much to her shock Naruto walked right past her. "I'll see you tomorrow Sakura." He said, leaving Sakura to stand on the bridge in shock.

H-he didn't even ask me out on a date. Thought Sakura. Could it be that she had finally pushed him away? I should be happy right? If that was the case, why did it feel like she had lost something?

The moment only lasted for a few seconds before she shook her head. She didn't need that baka anyways! Nodding to herself she walked off, hoping to find Sasuke-kun so she could stal- observe him.

It was a little while later that Naruto opened the door to the Hokage's office. "Hey Ojisancan I speak to you for a second?" he asked as he walked in.

Sarutobi looked up and smiled. "Of course Naruto-kun. What can I do for you?"

"Well I was reading about elemental manipulation in a book I just got, and I was wondering how to find out about my element, since the book only mentioned it in passing." Naruto said.

"Elemental affinity?" Sarutobi asked in surprise. "That's a jonin level skill Naruto-kun. Are you sure you're ready to learn about that?"

Naruto shook his head. "It's not so much that I'm going to any kind of training for my element. I actually want to know my affinity so I know which elemental jutsu to learn. I have a few scrolls with a jutsu from each element that I got from the library, but figured it would be better to learn ones from the element I have an affinity for."

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