So instead of putting some effort in your free time and getting well-rounded skills, you're waiting for some mythical 'cool jutsu' that will let you compensate for your lack of practice."

The funny thing is that he actually did it. Being a jinchuriki with an almost infinite supply of chakra can really be useful XD

I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed reading your story. I absolutely loved the time you took with the characters and how you built to Naruto making the decisions he made rather than just doing it because it was different. The final result was epic and very believable! I'm so sorry you were burnt out by the end, but please know your time and energy brought me hours of joy while binge-reading a great tale! I'm truly grateful. And finally, thank for your final gift of summarizing how you planned the ending, especially in such painstaking detail. I have not seen an author do this before and it was a little shocking, to say the least... However, it was a treat to get to know how the author saw their vision ending and it was just as fantastic as the rest of the ride! Whatever you're doing today, I hope you have re-energized and are happy! Thank you for sharing your story with us :)

I love the dynamics of the three-way battles you keep putting in this fic.

Naruto's knowledge on elemental manipulation was all over the place. First, he didn't seem to know about it at all, so Kakashi explained it to him. But then it turned out he had made a seal to measure someone's elemental affinity already...

Then he explains to Kakashi that he doesn't want to put in so much time learning how to manipulate multiple elements and any wind jutsu Kakashi can currently teach him will be weak, so to just give him an earth jutsu... to which Kakashi responds by explaining that by training elemental manipulation he can do powerful techniques, and gives him a weak wind jutsu to train it as if Naruto's explanation didn't clearly already taken that into account.

And, for some reason, Naruto accepts the weak wind jutsu (which he already explained would be useless due to his limitless explosive tags) for the purpose of training his wind manipulation (which he already explained he didn't want to dedicate time to).

I hope that he can turn that Kyuubi chakra seal on and off, so he can still get Kyuubi chakra when he decides he wants to learn how.

Oh fuck, I was not ready at all for that shit!

I've gotta say I'm pretty disappointed in Naruto during that talk with Gaara. He's made so much progress and improved so much, yet he someone reverted to being mentally disabled.

I love a realistic Pain

Sasuke never thought that Naruto was dead weight though. You even explicitely made a few paragraphs about it during the team announcements. Also, no one has mentioned to Kakashi that he obviously also got the wrong files like Kurenai which is why he keeps on acting like that.

Kakashi's acting like he's keeping it all to himself and planning something, when team 7 is literally the only ones who don't know because they don't care.

Constantly saying Sakura is so freaking annoying Naruto! Fuck her… jeez

Bless you for providing this chapter, seriously.

Ahh yes, "you can always the village with me", truly one of the decisions of all time.

Five Stars but please continue the story I really like it no scratch that love it.

Sūsaido Zombie Birds no jutsu for the win!