Originally posted by Kento
If you want to get technical. Tsunade and Jiraiya both taught their students ninjutsu. Tsunade taught medical ninjutsu to Sakura, and Jiraiya taught Rasengan and variations on it, and summoning jutsu. Oro was the only one not shown to teach Sasuke a new jutsu.
Those aren't neccesarily Ninjutsu, the main 3 jutsus are ninjutsu, genjutsu, taijutsu, then there are other jutsus like sealingjutsu and summoning jutsu. Rasengan, Medical Jutsu doesn't neccearily fall into the Ninjutsu category, ninjutsu usually requires handseals, chakra, and an element. Rasengan and and Medical jutsus are jutsus but they don't exactly fall into one of the 3 categories. Jiraiya didn't teach any ninjutsu to Naruto because Rasengan isn't really ninjutsu, he taught him summoning yes, and orochimaru taught sasuke summoning, sakura doesn't know how to summon, but does that mean Tsunade doesn't know how to summon? Nope. Thats why comparing students to teachers is fallacy.
If he was going to cut himself he wouldn't have thought to himself it was time to get serious, and charged at her. He'd have just cut himself. He was attacking her, and threatning to cut her. Not himself at all. It wasn't until three other people showed up he realized he couldn't win. After all it would be hard to fight Tsunade with Naruto, and Shizune helping out, which they would have. And if Jiraiya decided to do something it was even less possible to win. Taking her out with her phobia was the only thing he could do and survive. Which has nothing to do with what he was going to do before the arrived.
He basically says he was going to exploit her phobia right before the 3 show up, which means he charged at her with an intent on doing so, whether it be her blood or his, it was his trump card. Thats why he was so confident, but he most likely wasn't going to win because well, he didn't ahve control over his body, but even if he didn't win he could always cut himself to gain the upper hand.
Everybody is capable of learning other jutsu that the element they always use. Doesn't mean they do learn them. Just because he could have doesn't mean he did.
Why wouldn't he? Just because he specializes in mokuton doesn't mean he doesn't know any other kinds of jutsus, darkness jutsu is proof that he went out of his way to learn a jutsu not related to mokuton.
Because Shikamaru saying he's revising the plan to FIT in Kakashi means nothing? Shikamaru already had the plan, and just added Kakashi while tweaking it a bit. There is nothing to suggest it was Kakashi's plan. Kakashi just went along to help because Tsunade wouldn't let them go alone.
Nothing suggested that Kakashi didn't help him with the plan, after-all who knows Kakashi's abilities more then Kakashi himself? Hence why Shikamaru said it was "our" plan, and not "my" plan.
Which Earth style move are you talking about? Because the only Earth style move I remember him doing was when he came up from under the ground to attack Pein. Just like he came up from the ground, and pulled Sasuke under, and just like he came up from underground against Itachi after using the clone to trick him. [/B]
Doton Doryuuheki, where he brings up a ground wall surrounding his opponent so that his opponent cannot escape, we've seen the 3rd Hokage do it, but kakashi's wasn't anywhere as big as the 3rd's