"To train a team? Yeah right. Until you get this misinformation bullshit sorted out, I'm not taking up a team of Genin and letting them down like I did Ami. Besides, she'd be up in arms about me paying attention to someone else besides her. And if everybody else is convinced I'm a shit teacher, maybe she needs someone better." By everyone else, he meant Itachi. "And I don't know what's gotten into that girl to start telling me things like I ought to watch out or people would think I was carrying on a different sort of relationship with my student--" Mumbling now: "Teenagers."