Chapter 5: Land of Waves!

                                    

                                          
Team 7 had just completed another D ranked mission. All of them were getting sick of them. Naruto especially had been vocal about it. Kakashi had put him on his back quick for his lip. Impressively enough the boy had blocked his first two attacks before Kakashi had put him down. He wasn't going at maximum speed but that had still been impressive.
                          
"I know all of you are itching to prove yourselves but haste makes dead shinobi. These next lessons are going to be critically important. Teamwork is the key to all the great teams. Ino-Shika-Cho being the famous one of my generation. Individually none of them are inferior shinobi but they are not stand out fighters. Together they have taken multiple teams on at once and emerged triumphant."
                          
'That famous group is actually the parents of Choji, Shikamaru and Ino,' Sakura realized.
                          
All three genin looked ready and eager to learn. 'Ah motivation, what a beautiful thing it is,' Kakashi wryly thought to himself. "All right first up I want Sasuke to use Katon: Gokakyu (Fire Release: Great Fireball technique) and Naruto you will use Futon: Daitoppa(Wind Release: Great Breakthrough)." Kakashi walked up to a tree and carve an x over the center of its trunk. "This is your target, oh and Sakura stand back a bit."
                          
"Futon: Daitoppa" (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough)
                          
"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu" (Fire Release: Great Fireball technique)
                          
The two ninjutsu collided together and blew the tree apart. The fire storm smashed the scorched the tree into pieces; it continued on to blacken the trees behind it. Kakashi had one of his clones use a water jutsu to put out the flames that had caught a few of the trees nearby. The genin merely stared with wide eyes.
                          
"When you practice this technique don't use it on anymore trees, otherwise we'll lose our village name's sake," Kakashi joked.
                          
Naruto let out a yell, "That was AMAZING! That attack could destroy anything." Kakashi's eye twitched. "Naruto there are plenty of defenses against the attack, who can name a supplementary jutsu that could stop this attack?" Sakura answered, "Kawarimi no Jutsu" (Substitution Technique). Kakashi graced her with an eye smile. "Correct, attacks like the one you saw can be defeated with minor chakra output."
                          
Naruto squinted with his eyes. "Then what is the point? Why did we learn these jutsu if they aren't going to help?"
                          
Kakashi answered, "Because sometimes there is nothing nearby that can be used to switch places with. Additionally if the shinobi is caught unprepared this attack can hit them before they realize the danger they are in. Or the shinobi is using their own jutsu on you, so not only do you counter their attack but crush them with this. Maybe your comrade put them in a Genjutsu, even if it only lasted a second it would be long enough for this jutsu to kill. And of course there is the ever present number one shinobi killer... arrogance. Surely a genin jutsu couldn't beat my defense a higher ranked shinobi might say. Well this will come as a big surprise and possibly a fatal one. Now do you see the purpose?"
                          
Naruto rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. Sasuke had thought of some of Kakashi's scenarios but not all of them. The combination of the two jutsu's actually rivaled the destructive power of some A ranked jutsus. Sasuke once again reevaluated the benefit of having a team; he was starting to see several advantages to having strong allies at his back.
                          
Sakura was impressed with the damage done by the jutsu and wished her chakra reserve was higher. Her sensei had said she only needed a little bit more reserves before she too could use the Katon jutsu. When that happened she could also be a valued member of the team. Sakura could also sense that Kakashi had meant the Genjutsu comment for her. Sakura was falling in love with the concept of being a medic-nin but would keep an open mind when Kakashi-Sensei taught her a Genjutsu.