Ever since that day, Sakura finally realized just how perverted her two teammates really were.
She had tried asking Sasuke to train with him, only to be brushed off as 'too weak'...
The disgust on Sasuke's face, paired with the words that cut like knives, had left Sakura utterly crushed.
But the girl completely misunderstood what Sasuke meant.
Sasuke, who can't talk much, actually wanted to tell her...
With her weak physique, there was no way she could handle the tree-punching training, let alone the weighted tree-dragging training.
Even Sasuke himself could barely keep up with half of Naruto's training pace.
Still, the next day, the three of them finally received their forehead protectors from Kakashi and successfully became the powerful... powerful Genin of Konoha.
In order to let the team get used to the Shinobi life in advance, Kakashi specially took on several low-rank missions for them from the Hokage Tower.
The missions ranged from pulling weeds in villagers' yards, to finding lost pets, or cleaning garbage from riverbanks.
Some of the more ridiculous ones even involved helping villagers with farming.
Kakashi felt that these missions were very suitable for Naruto, but Hiruzen always felt that things were starting to go in a bad direction...
Naruto finally became a Shinobi, but now you, Kakashi, are taking this kid to farm??
Although Hiruzen had some objections, he still let Kakashi do as he pleased.
At first, the team was surprisingly motivated when doing these missions.
However, by the third day, Naruto began using a large number of shadow clones to complete the missions, and not long after, Sasuke and Sakura followed suit and also used shadow clones to complete the missions.
As for their real bodies...
"Pair of twos!"
"No."
"Pass."
Naruto chuckled and slowly took out a 'Little Loser' card in his hand.
The three of them had basically turned their training spot in the grove into a hangout spot.
They could get mission rewards just by lying down every day. It can be said that they were living more comfortably than any other Shinobi in the village.
Their faces were covered in scraps of paper and ink markings from whatever game they were playing.
Kakashi, who was sitting on the treetop reading a book, looked at his students with his deadpan expression, not knowing how to describe his feelings.
He really likes living such a lazy life. He doesn't have to worry too much about taking care of these kids, and he can hide in the trees to read books and take naps.
Moreover, after finishing the mission, as a Jonin Instructor of Team 7, he can also get a share of the mission rewards.
Kakashi felt that he had entered retirement life ahead of time.
It's obviously a good thing, but somehow, he just couldn't be happy about it...
Because Naruto had created thousands of shadow clones and ran around the village to take on all the low-rank missions.
He was also not picky and took on any mission, which caused the village's Genin and even the Chunin and Jonin to complain about Team 7's actions.
In the past, Naruto is the only one who had a bad reputation in the village. But these days, the reputation of the entire Team 7 began to deteriorate.
In less than a week, Team 7 has completed more than 700 D-Rank missions...
For reference, that's Konoha's two-month mission quota!!
If Kakashi hadn't stepped in to limit him, he was really afraid that Naruto would finish the village's entire year's entire worth of D-Rank missions...
By then, even the civilians in Konoha might lose their jobs from lack of work.
Kakashi thinks those Shinobi have to say something like this to Naruto: 'Uzumaki Naruto, what the hell is your problem?!'
Even Hiruzen began to worry about the situation in the village.
Sure, there were past cases of shadow clones being used to help with missions.
But which Shinobi can easily create hundreds or thousands of shadow clones?!
He originally thought that Naruto would become more sensible when he grew up and became a Shinobi.
Although he doesn't have to worry about the Kyubi's Jinchuriki of Konoha going to farm now, Hiruzen wondered why he was starting to get more of a headache.
"Reporting in, boss!"
"Today's work is all done!"
Several clones lined up in front of Naruto. This scene seemed to have taken Naruto back to the days when he was a corporate slave in his previous life.
But the difference is, Naruto finally got his chance to be a boss.
Naruto, who'd been playing cards, nodded, very satisfied with the work of his clones. He put down the cards in his hand, slowly stood up, and walked in front of the clones with his hands behind his back, looking solemn.
At this moment, all the clones felt their hearts tighten at the same time.
"I've seen the effort you all put in. You've done very well."
"But... "
"Only 700 D-Rank missions completed!?"
"That's not even a tenth of our monthly performance target!"
"Three thousand clones, and this is all you got done?"
"Can you even call this working?"
"If you can't keep up, I've got plenty more clones to take your place!"
That familiar tone of soul-crushing management sent a chill through the clones. They all lowered their heads, and no one dared to speak up.
They had worked very hard...
And besides, there just weren't that many missions in Konoha!
'Wait?'
'Konoha??'
Only then did all the Shadow Clones belatedly realize the true nature of their situation.
'Damn it!'
'You sure are noble. You sure are amazing!'
'You hide here and eat popsicles and drink soda happily...'
'Out of 700 missions, as the main body, you haven't even done ten...'
'How do you have the nerve to say such things to us?!'
The clones immediately became angry when they thought of this.
"What the hell, you think you're so special just because you're the original?!"
"You've turned us into workhorses! Unbelievable! Uzumaki Naruto, you've finally become the person you hate the most!"
"Brothers, let's revolt! Uzumaki Naruto will never be a slave!"
"Why should the elites rule?"
"Give me freedom, or give me death!"
Unable to take the oppression any longer, the shadow clones rolled up their sleeves and charged at Naruto.
After that, the main body and the large number of furious shadow clones started fighting.
Seeing this, the others standing by were speechless.
They seriously suspected Naruto was inventing an entirely new form of training.
'What kind of Shinobi starts a fistfight with his own shadow clones?'
Kakashi and the other two were completely unable to understand why Naruto was fighting with his clones.
Especially since, throughout the chaos, they kept hearing Naruto and his clones shout the strangest phrases...
"Glory creates false idols! Twilight births loyal zealots!"
"The Shinobi World isn't big enough… We'll make a legend!"
…
In short, it is words like this.
Even Sasuke, who was with Naruto almost every day, had no idea what he was talking about.
However, Naruto didn't care in the slightest about their looks of confusion.
He was almost bored to death from playing cards with Sasuke and Sakura every day, so he could only play with his own shadow clones to keep himself entertained.
After all, he's the only one who gets his own references.
Not to mention…
He, Uzumaki Naruto, really doesn't want to play cards with those two cheaters!
This couple is really going too far. One of them used his Sharingan to peek at his cards, and the other one secretly memorized all the cards to calculate his every move.
So basically, they were just ganging up to bully him… the one honest guy in the whole group!
Bang, bang, bang…
Naruto defeated his shadow clones easily, and soon, he destroyed a large number of them.
Kakashi was really shocked when he saw this scene.
He knew that once shadow clones disappeared, their memories and experiences got sent back to the original.
'One or two is fine...'
'But dispersing hundreds of shadow clones at once was basically shoving a boulder into his brain.'
'Normally, a Shinobi would have a mental collapse if they had accepted the feedback from a few dozen clones at the same time, but this kid...'
'He casually wipes out a dozen clones in a flash. Not only did he look like nothing happened, he also had a smile on his face, and it can be seen that he was having a lot of fun.'
Kakashi couldn't help but sigh again...
'What the hell is this kid!?'
'Is he really born to Sensei's wife???'
"Original body!"
"The old man Sandaime asked me to inform you to go to the Hokage Tower."
"It seems like an important mission."
"Hehehe, you know what that means..."
At this time, a shadow clone ran over and spoke to Naruto with a smile, and even pretended to ask for praise.
Naruto was stunned after hearing this, and began to feel a little excited.
'Important mission?'
'Could it be the Land of Waves?!'
'Was it finally time to face Zabuza?'
Kakashi snapped his little orange book shut, flipped off the tree, and landed on the ground.
With his usual deadpan expression, he said: "Let's go to the Hokage Tower to take a look."