Naruto Nature Manipulation

Nature Manipulation is a technique which allows the jutsu user to a add elemental into their jutsus which normally will cause more damage than a jutsu without NatureManipulation. In the Naruto series there is usually two ways to find out

and background, Usually the whole family has the same nature manipulation types. The Uchihas for example usually have The Nature Manipulation of Fire and Lightning.
This allowed Sasuke to learn the Chidori from Kakashi because Sasuke had the
same type of nature manipulation as Sasuke. It also explains why Naruto couldn’t
learn the Chidori, so he learned the Rasengan from Jiraiya instead. The second
method is to take a paper test. The paper will tell you what your dominant element
is by channeling a small amount of chakra in it. When your nature manipulation
element is wind, it’l be cut in 2; when it is lightning, the paper will crumble;
when it is fire it’ll burn; when it is water, it’ll get wet; and when it is
earth, it turns to dust. Naruto found out his element was wind. Nature manipulation
takes a great deal of time to learn, maybe even years! In Naruto Shippuuden,
Naruto was able to speed up the time though because he could learn what his
kage bunshin was learning. Once nature manipulation is Mastered the jutsu maker
usually tries to incorporate it into his jutsu. There are Elemental Weaknesses
though. Lets say a Fire jutsu goes against a water jutsu. In common sense the
Water jutsu would win. The only chance the fire jutsu could win is if the fire
jutsu was at a way higher level then the water jutsu.

That’s the main reason
why Kakashi was able to Destroy Kakuzas Earth jutsu because of elemental weakness.
A person usually has to master 2 elements of Nature manipulation to become a
Average jounin. There are special versions of the jounins though. Some people
like the Sannins, Orochimaru and Jiraiya can use all 5 elements. It takes a
Bloodline limit in order to mix elements and create a totally different element.
Overall though most people have 1 dominant element. For Sasuke that would be
lightning, for Naruto that would be wind, for Itachi that would be fire. This
also explains why Sasuke had trouble learning the Fireball Technique when he
was a kid.