^i guess now we're debating ands and ifs cos the series portrays that Naruto works against all odds and works hard to overcome them. It never really suggests how hard the others work aside from Lee who probably does work harder.

I guess you could probably make a case for Sasuke being as hard a worker as Naruto based on the tree sticking training and then pre chunin exam stuff. He had kakashi teach him chidori, Naruto had Jiraiya teach him rasengan.

Neji well he's in a class of his own. I can't recall if they ever showed him training other than the few obligatory bits where tenten tosses knives at him and misses (as usual). Even though he did figure out a lot of the moves by himself doesn't mean he put in more tiime than sasuke or naruto though. I mean a genius means things should be easier for him:/

We can all settle on one thing though. Shikamaru is a lazy ass and sakura is useless