Team 7, Why the Hell Are You Grinding So Hard?!

After that day, Sakura finally realized just how freakish her two teammates truly were.

And when she wanted to train with Sasuke, he mocked her for being too weak...

Sasuke's disdainful expression and his blade-like words dealt Sakura a severe blow.

But the girl had completely misunderstood what Sasuke meant.

Sasuke, who never wasted words, had actually wanted to tell her...

With her frail physique, she simply couldn't complete the tree-punching training, much less the weighted tree-dragging training.

Even Sasuke could only barely keep up with half of Naruto's progress.

However, the next day, the three kids finally received their Ninja Headbands from Kakashi and officially became Konoha's cow... cowingly impressive genin.

To help the team get used to ninja life early, Kakashi specially accepted several low-level missions for them at the Hokage Building.

These missions were either pulling weeds at Villagers' homes, searching for lost pets, or clearing trash from the river.

The more outrageous ones even had them helping Villagers farm.

Kakashi felt these missions suited Naruto perfectly, but the Third Hokage always felt things were starting to head in a bad direction...

Naruto had finally become a ninja, and Kakashi was taking the kid farming again??

Although the Third Hokage had plenty of objections, he still let Kakashi do as he pleased.

At first, Naruto and the others tackled their missions with great enthusiasm.

But by the third day, Naruto had started using massive numbers of Shadow Clones to grind missions around the village, and Sasuke and Sakura followed suit, using Shadow Clones to do missions as well.

As for their real bodies...

"Pair of twos!"

"No."

"Pass."

Naruto chuckled and slowly played a lowly three from his hand.

The three sitting on the ground were basically training and having fun in the little grove.

They could lie around every day and still collect mission rewards. Their lives were more comfortable than any ninja in the village.

Their faces were covered in paper strips and ink marks.

Kakashi, sitting on a treetop reading, propped up his dead-fish eyes and looked at his subordinates, not knowing how to describe his feelings.

He really liked this kind of lazy life. He didn't have to worry too much about raising the kids, and he could hide in the trees to read books and take afternoon naps.

Once everything was done, he could also get a share of the mission rewards as Team 7's jonin.

Kakashi felt like he had entered retirement early.

It was clearly a good thing, but he just couldn't bring himself to be happy...

That brat Naruto had made several thousand Shadow Clones and sent them all over the village to take every low-level mission. He wasn't picky, either—he accepted anything. As a result, the village's genin, and even chunin and jonin, had plenty of complaints about Team 7.

Naruto's reputation in the village had been poor before, but after these past few days, Team 7's reputation as a whole had begun to worsen.

In less than a week, Team 7 had already completed over seven hundred D-Rank Missions...

That was Konoha's mission volume for two whole months!!

If he hadn't held Naruto back a little, Kakashi was genuinely afraid the kid would grind through all of this year's D-Rank Missions...

By then, Konoha's civilian ninja might lose their jobs because there were no missions left to do.

Kakashi felt that any ninja who saw Naruto would have to say...

"Naruto, why the hell are you grinding so hard!"

Even the Third Hokage had started worrying about the village's situation.

It wasn't as though Naruto was the first person to use Shadow Clones to accept missions.

But what kind of ninja casually made hundreds or thousands of Shadow Clones??

They had originally thought that once the kid grew up and became a ninja, he would become more sensible.

Sure, they no longer had to worry about Konoha's Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki running off to farm, but why did the Third Hokage feel like his headache had gotten worse...

"Reporting to the boss!"

"Today's work has all been completed!"

Several clones stood in a line before Naruto, making it feel as though he had returned to his past life as a corporate drone.

The difference was that Naruto finally got to experience being the boss.

Naruto, who was playing cards, nodded in satisfaction at the clones' work. He put down his cards, slowly rose to his feet, then walked in front of them with his hands behind his back and an old-fashioned air.

At that moment, every clone's heart tightened.

"I have seen all of your efforts. You have all done very well."

"But..."

"Only seven hundred D-Rank Missions completed!?"

"That isn't even one-tenth of this month's performance target!"

"You three thousand clones only managed this many missions?"

"Can you even do your jobs?"

"If you can't, I have plenty of clones who can!"

The familiar feeling instantly left the clones dominated by the terror of corporate drudgery. Every one of them lowered their heads, and not a single clone dared speak.

They had already worked very hard...

And Konoha simply didn't have that many missions!

Wait?

Konoha??

Only then did the clones realize their current situation.

Damn it!

The real body was so high and mighty, so impressive!

He hid here eating Popsicles and drinking soda...

Out of seven hundred missions, the real body hadn't even done ten...

How did he have the nerve to say something like that!

The clones immediately became furious.

"Damn it! What are you putting on airs for, real body?!"

"You actually made your clones work like slaves! Heh heh! Naruto, you've finally become the person you hated most!"