For some reason, every version of Team 7 in Konoha suffers a particular curse: absolutely none of them can write a proper mission report. And if that weren't bad enough, each of them has their own unique way to make the desk-ninjas' lives hell, and their jonin-sensei have to deal with it... which is probably karma from when they were genin and gave their own teachers the same trouble.
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Team 7 vs Tropes
- Almighty Janitor: The Head Desk Shinobi. And Iruka, the one to finally break the curse and teach Team 7 to write properly.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Minato's problem. He tends to get distracted and doodle things on mission report paper... like his ideas for a new jutsu. He then doesn't want to give them up because he'll forget what he wrote.
- Born Lucky: Obito actually writes proper mission reports. It's just that he has very specifically terrible luck directed at his turning in of paperwork. It's not just that Obito himself gets run over by nin-dogs and splashed by muddy water and fruit pulp, but anyone who tries to turn in Obito's paperwork in any way will suffer until it's soaked/torn/illegible/whatever. When Minato tried to use his teleportation to deliver Obito's paperwork, that was the day the janitors accidentally put his special kunai in the dumpster. When Obito did his paperwork in the Hokage's tower, he was still struck by disaster after paperwork-ruining disaster.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Not considered enough of a problem to get the ninja therapists involved, given the other stuff they have to deal with.
- The Bore: Kakashi's problem. He doesn't have anything ridiculous happen to his reports, but they're impossibly bare and boring.
- Covert Group with Mundane Front: The Mori family is a group of Konoha agents disguised as a traveling theater troupe. Except, well, they're really into the whole theater bit. So into it that Mori Hanako writes all her mission reports as plays. She even acts one out for the desk-shinobi.
- Giftedly Bad: Wakahisa Taiki loves poetry, but poetry hates Taiki.
- Mood-Swinger: Orochimaru's problem. He's very moody and it affects the way he writes; on a good day he might spend half the report detailing some new experiment he wants to try, and on a bad day he might scare the desk-nin into hiding under their desks. Oh, and sometimes he writes reports while testing out drugs on himself.
- Noodle Incident: The beginning of the Desk-Nin and the Academy teachers' feud. All we get is that it involved a bad break-up.
- Origami Gag: Rin's problem is that she unconsciously folds all paper around her into origami- including her mission reports. And not just regular origami, but horribly complicated origami that is fearsomely difficult to unfold.
- Purple Prose: Taiki's mission reports include multiple words with dictionary links, and Jiraiya mentions having to look them up. Jiraiya, the professional writer.
- Suckiness Is Painful: Taiki's mission reports embody the trope so much they'd probably work as interrogation devices.
- There Are No Therapists: Well, there are, but you probably don't want to put them near Orochimaru. When he attended a therapy appointment, he psychoanalyzed the therapist to tears- and that was in one of his good moods.
