The Lack of Motivation

Chapter 8

Naruto yawned widely, bored out of his mind. Today his genin team (Naruto suppressed a shudder for calling it his genin team) was supposed to do another measly D-rank mission. Though just like other days, Naruto sent his bunshin in his place to do his job while he was away training. There was no way, he, the vessel of Kyuubi, son of Yondaime (though most Konoha's people didn't know and the only ones who knew didn't know that he know) and shinobi extraordinary did a job as low as D-rank mission. It degraded his pride.

The only thing he did was to get to team 7's meeting place when his foxes sensed the silver haired jounin around and to arrive before his so-called sensei. The first few times he came, he was always being yelled at by the atrocious pink haired…teammate. Hmph, she was more like an expendable sacrificial lamb! Thankfully that stupid incessant girl stopped it after awhile. Though whether it was because she has given up or maybe it was because of the pranks he pulled out to make her life as miserable as he could without harming her (don't want to get an earful scolding from Sandaime, of course), he didn't know. One thing for sure was that she was never bored yelling at the lame reason that the jounin instructor threw at them. Hm… perhaps he needed to talk with sandaime about this. Preferably a cut of allowance. That way that jounin would (hopefully) didn't come late.

Naruto didn't know why he even bothered to come. Obviously he had sent his bunshin to do his assignment while he went back to his own training after team 7 received their mission scroll. Perhaps it was just his way respecting the deal he made with the Konoha's current leader. Afterall a promise is a promise, and he promised that he would become Konoha's genin even if he did it for his own sake not for this pathetic village that was called a hidden village which was wrong since it wasn't hidden in anyway at all. For Kyuubi's sake, the village was built on plain sight!

Very stupid for a shinobi village really.

"Naruto can't you do your own tasks instead of sending your clone?" Kakashi asked exasperatedly at the blonde genin beside him.

"Why? It doesn't matter anyway. In a way I am doing my job even if it is indirectly," the blonde boy shrugged as he walked away from the team after they received a D-rank mission: weed the garden. His clone that he has just left behind looked back and forth between him and Kakashi.

"These missions are supposed to polish your team work."

Naruto scoffed. As if there was teamwork to begin with. And this jounin wanted him to polish this non- existent teamwork? He must be crazier than he first thought. "I don't care about a god damn team work. Plus if you want talk about teamwork, perhaps you should come on time to the meetings in the first place. That way I might reconsider. Note that you've done nothing to make me and those other 2 brats stronger. Are you really a fuckin' jounin instructor? The way I see it when there are dangerous opponents those 2 would soon get their asses battered and hopefully get killed. They're lucky that at least I give them some…training."

Kakashi wanted to point out that it wasn't actually a training considering how many pranks Naruto executed inside his traps, but decided to shut his mouth. He had to admit that Sasuke and Sakura improved a little after facing those daily traps. The 2 genins were being more careful than they were 3 weeks ago, considering they had to predict whether Naruto put a trap somewhere to make their meeting more… interesting. Thankfully he hadn't built trap like the 3-layered trap he had built weeks ago.

The silver haired jounin watched as Naruto walked away from the rest of the team with a sigh. He felt like he didn't fit to be a jounin teacher for failing his sensei on teaching his son.