Kakashi hadn't expected that Shikamaru would take a mission failure so hard, especially when the boy -- no, the younger man, Shikamaru's no longer a boy, he's already twenty -- usually finds everything short of the clouds above troublesome. Very mendoukusai. He gives Shikamaru a sidelong glance. ]
It sounds like this mission was particularly important to you.
[ Kakashi thinks it must be more personal than professional; if it were a mission taken for strictly professional reasons, then surely, he and Minato would have been informed. Which means that Shikamaru went on this mission for himself, not just to pass time or keep his skills sharp, and actually cared about the outcome. ]
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Kakashi hadn't expected that Shikamaru would take a mission failure so hard, especially when the boy -- no, the younger man, Shikamaru's no longer a boy, he's already twenty -- usually finds everything short of the clouds above troublesome. Very mendoukusai. He gives Shikamaru a sidelong glance. ]
It sounds like this mission was particularly important to you.
[ Kakashi thinks it must be more personal than professional; if it were a mission taken for strictly professional reasons, then surely, he and Minato would have been informed. Which means that Shikamaru went on this mission for himself, not just to pass time or keep his skills sharp, and actually cared about the outcome. ]