"Why?! Why, why, why?! Why isn't there any personalized special training?"
When he heard the smiling Shadow Clone in front of him say there was no special training regimen and that he should just stick to his usual routine, Uzumaki Naruto immediately refused to accept it. He began shouting at once, expressing his intense dissatisfaction through emphatic hopping and jumping.
He had been full of anticipation, thinking he would receive personalized special training from such an incredible ninja and make a stunning showing in the Chunin Exams. But he had not expected that the moment they stopped, this Shadow Clone would tell him there was no personalized special training. The training he had planned was basic training, meant to improve his fundamentals in a short time.
This...
This wasn't what he had been promised!
Didn't basic training mean the same area Teacher Ebisu had wanted to improve for him?
Such an incredible ninja was going to teach him the basics? What kind of deal was that?
Could it be that he was simply doomed never to receive special training?
Were Sasuke and Sakura over there also only doing basic training?
Impossible!
This was unfair!
"No, there isn't."
Facing Uzumaki Naruto, who was baring his teeth like a furious little beast, the Shadow Clone wore a smiling expression. His eyes were narrowed shut from his smile, revealing not the slightest hint of his gaze. To Uzumaki Naruto, he looked like a slyly grinning fox, though Chiba's Shadow Clone's smile was not only harmless, but rather friendly.
And his answer to Uzumaki Naruto had also been delivered with considerable harmlessness and friendliness.
He was brushing him off!
He was definitely brushing him off!
But to Uzumaki Naruto's ears, it was full of the cunning and irritation of an old fox.
"Unfair! This