Team Eleven

[anowack]

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On the other hand, several sources have mentioned that he's supposed to have been considered very talented at taijutsu when he entered the Academy... he just never got much of anywhere since, because of hostility from pre-Iruka teachers.

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I'm roughly 90% certain that's fanon. It's fairly reasonable fanon, but still fanon.
Whatever Naruto's original talent in taijustu, it seems fairly certain to me that by the time the series starts he's fallen way behind in it, for whatever reason. Him having something that he was actually decent at would probably be worthy of some comment in canon if such a thing existed and would change the way the rest of the Rookie Nine react to his improvement in the Chuunin Exam.
At least, that's my view of the matter. I could always be wrong.

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Aaron Nowack

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Aaron Nowack