A/N at bottom

I do not own Naruto

After eating, Naruto and Kakashi retired to their respective beds. Kakashi lay in bed for several hours, mulling over the events of the day. It was all shocking, and it felt like everything after Kakashi learned that Naruto was Minato's son was a blur. He sat brooding until his mind cleared and he finally fell asleep.

Naruto, on the other hand, passed out almost upon hitting the bed, giving him no time to contemplate what had happened that day. He just felt so good after releasing his chakra that he could not help but relax and sleep.

The routine of the morning before was repeated almost exactly, the only difference being that this time Naruto cooked the meal much more quickly and much sooner. This gave him time to think about what he was going to do today. Yesterday had gotten out of his hands quickly, and though he had felt better after the training, he did not feel like he had learned anything or had become more skilled with chakra. Today he resolved to ask Kakashi to teach him something; it was preferable that it be chakra-related, but Naruto would settle for general ninja training if it would get him to chakra exercises later.

Kakashi woke up late as he had the day before and walked into the kitchen, still half asleep. As he ate, Naruto watched silently from the door where he was sitting, waiting to go. Although Naruto could not help but notice that, even with direct observation, Kakashi's face was not visible. It was disturbing to see food go into a body without a mouth, but Naruto shrugged it off. Even in his few years of life, he had seen stranger things.

Kakashi finished and walked through the door, once again gesturing for Naruto to follow. Naruto silently complied once again, still waiting for training. They continued to walk towards the same training ground as the day before when a man in green jumped in front of Kakashi. Naruto looked up at the man and immediately noticed two strange things; the man was wearing a green spandex suit, and he had enormous eyebrows. Finished observing, Naruto stood still and waited for Kakashi to finish so they could continue moving.

However, before Kakashi could say anything, the man in green yelled, "Hello Kakashi, my eternal rival! What are you doing up so early? And who is the youthful boy?"

Kakashi lazily responded, "I'm fine Gai. This is my… pupil, and his name is Naruto Uzumaki. We've got to get going, see ya!"

Fortunately for Kakashi, Gai would not be lengthening the conversation. He simply nodded, smiled once again at Naruto, and jumped away. Kakashi looked at Naruto expectantly, clearly hoping for a reaction. When Naruto disappointed with his calm gaze, Kakashi sighed and kept walking.

Once at the training ground, Kakashi turned to Naruto and said, "So, Naruto, today I figured that we would work on the basics. For now, I brought along some weight to help you with endurance, since running doesn't seem like it will do it for you."

Kakashi held up the weights and Naruto stuck out his arms. Kakshi carefully slid the weights onto Naruto's arms, demonstrating the locking mechanism, and then handed the two remaining ones to Naruto. Kakashi looked at Naruto's legs, and Naruto, taking the hint, put them on his legs and stood ready to show Kakashi he had finished.

"Good. Those will weigh you down a bit, and help you get stronger faster. They're pretty light, only 5 kilograms each for now. We'll increase the weights when you get older," Kakashi said, smirking.

Naruto just stared.

"Errr, yes. Well, today we'll be working on the basics of taijutsu, genjutsu, and medic jutsu. I know you may not like these as much as ninjutsu, but you may find them necessary. Later, when you are more developed, we will select a specialty from amongst these ninja arts and focus on that one. However, I still think you ought to know the basics of these three, in addition to ninjutsu," Kakashi explained to Naruto.

Naruto responded, "That all sounds fine, sensei, but I have never seen nor heard of genjutsu or medic jutsu. What are they?"

Kakashi almost slapped himself. He had gotten so used to how intelligent Naruto was that he no longer looked at Naruto as the inexperienced five and a half years old kid that he was. Of course, Naruto would never see these two rarer ninja arts in the residential district.

Kakashi said, "Okay, Naruto. Genjutsu is the art of illusuion, using your chakra to interfere with another person's senses. With enough practice, you can make someone actually believe they are experiencing anything you, or they, can imagine. Medic jutsu is the ninja art of healing. It uses the life force part of chakra to restore life to another living thing. A part of medic jutsu is also in using precise instruments for surgery, and diagnosing jutsu or machines to properly identify what the problem is. What these two arts have in common is that they both require excellent chakra control, making women the predominant users of these ninja arts. Hmmmm… I'm not sure if you know this, Naruto, but men typically have more chakra and less control than women. That's just how it seems to work. You get all that, Naruto?"

Naruto nodded in the affirmative and stood ready for further instructions, making Kakashi marvel at the boy. He was extremely intelligent and determined; two necessary qualities for the making of a great ninja.

"Alright, Naruto, let's get started!" Kakashi exclaimed, which startled Naruto a little.

(6 months later)

Naruto finished a sequence of attacks against a training dummy under the watchful eye of Kakashi. Naruto, hanging his head in order to catch his breath, glanced at Kakashi for a sign of approval and got one in the form of a "smiling" eye.

"Am I done now, sensei?" Naruto asked Kakashi, though he was already edging towards the path back towards Kakashi's apartment; he was hungry, and was fairly certain he had properly executed the set.

"Not quite Naruto," Kakashi began. "I know that you have made enormous progress, and for a six year old you are unmistakably one of the most talented children I've ever seen. But you and I both know you could do better in taijutsu. Half the time you do so well it surprises me, not because you did it but because you look like you couldn't put in less effort if you wanted to!" Naruto just smiled back at Kakashi.

"Yeah, I'm sorry Kakashi, but you know I only do taijutsu because you make me in order to do ninjutsu. I honestly have no interest in more complex taijutsu than this, but I really do want to learn more complex ninjutsu," Naruto explained.

Kakashi could only sigh; this was a problem he had been dealing with since the beginning of Naruto's training. Naruto really did work hard at taijutsu. His "slacking off" was failing to put in the huge amount of intensity and focus that he did for most any other chakra related subject. Naruto was perfectly willing to sweat and bleed for taijutsu should Kakashi say so. No, it was simply a lack of motivation that made Naruto's taijutsu lag behind the rest of his skills. That thought, however, made Kakashi chuckle aloud. Naruto was so far ahead of almost every other ninja at his age that any teacher who heard him complaining would likely kill him. Kakashi pondered the issue of Naruto's motivation while forcing Naruto to stand awkwardly and wait for Kakashi to speak; Kakashi had a hard time embarrassing Naruto in front of his friends, despite the fact that his much older friends all enjoyed poking fun at Naruto. Naruto had a strange way of turning any insult against him into a compliment, and any situation which would embarrass other six year old boys only caused Naruto to smirk, or stand solemnly. So Kakashi's only real joy was in turning Naruto's seemingly infinite patience against him.

After several minutes of awkward silence, in which Naruto changed from restless shifting to an almost complete stillness, Kakashi was so disturbed that he told himself to get Naruto a psyche check; this amount of patience was just unnatural.

Kakashi finally broke the silence, saying, "Alright, Naruto, here's the deal. To be honest, I don't like taijutsu enough to force it into you. From now on, I'll be teaching you exclusively chakra-based lessons." This caused Naruto to widen his eyes in surprise; he had not seen that coming. He was just thinking that it was too good to be true when Kakashi continued, "From now on every other day or so I'm sending you to Gai for several hours. If he can't make you love taijutsu, no one can. And hey, when you're not with him, you can focus on those chakra exercises you love so much!"

Naruto wanted to be happy, he really did. But the best he could manage was a wary grin, due mainly to Kakashi's eye forming a cruel smirk. Naruto knew a bad sign when he saw one.

Well, I'll cut it off right there, and save the next bit for later. I felt bad that people wanted an update so much, so I decided to post this (call it part 1 of the whole chapter) before the next bit is done. It may not be up to par, but that'll have to be dealt with later. I'm not going to make excuses, I'm bored of writing this story, but it happens; I'll have an idea and write for a while, so don't consider this the end. In any case, I had a rough end of the last semester, ended with 3 A's and a C in AP Calc, which pissed me off quite a lot, but at least I'll have more free time again. For now, read and enjoy. I'm still debating where Naruto will go, but as for the polls, I'm leaning towards no paring again; Naruto will still need to interact with people, and women will obviously be interested, but this doesn't seem like an appropriate scenario for Naruto to be into a relationship sort of thing; in general, Naruto shouldn't be interested at all (except for chakra).

Naruto is OP, but he'll have plenty of enemies; currently he's far too lacking in stature to compete with larger ninja, and later he'll still probably be outmatched in strength. Of course, this is compared to adult ninja, so Naruto will not have much competition in his age group.

I'm going to try to go back and edit older chapters to help with getting back into it, so if there are any fixes you want repost them now. In addition, I feel like I addressed Naruto's unique affiliation with chakra enough in the last chapter, so I am not going to do it here. The point about Naruto being able to use shadow clones only because of his healing abilities (I saw this in a review by someone, and I forgot whom, sorry) makes perfect sense to me and works well here, as Naruto obviously does not have said regenerative abilities.

I'm going to try to get part 2 of this chapter out much faster, so I can get back into my whole Naruto universe. Sorry if this chapter is a bit shoddy. I'm actually feeling a little bit more chipper by the end of this monologue; I'll continue writing later today. So, a final sorry, for every complaint you will inevitably have, and a good bye.