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The Wind Release: Rasengan is a wind-infused version of the Rasengan, and the prerequisite of the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.
Overview
As mentioned by Kakashi Hatake, mixing elemental chakra into the Rasengan has proven to be difficult, with even Fourth Hokage being unable to complete the process before his untimely death. Naruto struggled to combine wind-nature with the Rasengan, which he described as needing to look left and right at the same time.[1] He is eventually able to overcome this obstacle by using shadow clones: he provides the chakra, one shadow clone shapes the chakra into a sphere, and a second infuses the sphere with wind. The end product becomes the Wind Release: Rasengan. Users who have mastered the Rasengan's shape transformation will only need one shadow clone to provide the wind-nature,[2] but with additional experience users can perform it without any shadow clones at all.[3]
Naruto's version appears largely identical to a standard Rasengan, but is stronger, and capable of being thrown. When used in combination with Water Release, its wind nature can expand the other jutsu's coverage area. Konohamaru's usage is surrounded by an aura and generates a large current of air, with its strength being capable of destroying a hill from a distance. Boruto's is uniquely green in chakra and sports rings around the central sphere. Though his is incomplete, Boruto is able to throw it.
Tailed Beast Influence
In the Sasuke Shinden novel, Naruto uses the power of the Nine-Tails to form a Wind Release: Rasengan that he's able to throw; he also doesn't need any shadow clones to create it. When it hits its target, it creates a shockwave of wind away from Naruto. In the anime, Naruto instead uses "Rasengan: Flash".