Quote Originally Posted by Yukimura
They could at least try and make it seem like this filler truly extends the real storyline as opposed to filling in for it. Naruto just learned that if he creates a bunch of clones and they all try to do the same thing he'll learn a lot faster. Now I can get behind the Kyuubi supression necessitating Yamato, however I don't see why a) Kakashi would need to be there and b) why even Yamato would need to be there if Naruto scalesed back the clone quantity to only a few dozen or so.

People are supposed to believe he completely abandoned all the ideas behind his revolutionary new training method all of a sudden why?
Naruto cleared the first step of the wind element training, which was cutting the leaf.
Apparently nobody can do anything until Kakashi tells Naruto what the next step is?