Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170915213819/@comment-734582-20170926143745

Namikazenaruto9 wrote: I might be quite fuzzy about the time line but didn't it take months for naruto learn rasengan? Weren't they searching for Tsunade by then? Also didn't Sasuke leave the village because Naruto caught up with him? Wasn't that the whole point, where he felt Kakashi can't teach him something new? I don't think Naruto was away for months.

And yes, Sasuke FELT that Kakashi had nothing more to teach him. Doesn't mean it's true. He did get his ass handed to him by the Sound 4 as a demonstration of the power he could get, and Itachi basically handed Sasuke on a silver platter to Orochimaru by completely ignoring him. Fact is, Sasuke had already grown in power quite a bit during his Team 7 period.