Redux: How To Be Hokage

The sounds of hammer on nail and nail on wood echoed throughout the village, reconstruction was tedious, sweat drips off a man as he suffers to rebuild his home. Missing the strike to the nail and hammering his own thumb, the man stifles a scream, and half yells a stream of curses as he rushes down the roof down to get a pail of water. Massaging his thumb to his best strength and once again cursing the culprit behind the mass crime committed in his village. His train of thought is broken as he notices the one said to have saved the village in the leaders place. He couldn't believe it. He would have to learn to respect and acknowledge this…boy as the one who saved him and his family. To think that so many people owed him their lives, it was almost despicable. The boy was boisterous even in the atmosphere of anger and frustration surrounded the village men and women. He had come back with a supposedly new leader, seeing as the last had died off, or at least that's what the rumors say. The man spat out in contempt, he, an elderly, had to work night to day and day to night, while this boy bounced around joyously, just because he had the official documentation backing his superiority to the man, just because he was a civilian and the boy was in the village military (and at the lowest rank to think of) was not good enough reason to exempt him from working those young bones of his and giving him a chance to flex out.

It just wasn't fair.

Walking into his new office as the Kage of Konoha, the Godaime. Naruto smugly smiled to himself, his dream had been achieved and all he had to do was head-butt someone, he was proud.

Naruto had been told about his new position first right from the lips of the old man's student and his new master in ninja arts. He didn't believe it at first and thought the man was just pulling one of those dry jokes of his and promptly decided to punch him square in the face. He then believed it was the truth when the old Sannin mumbled about how it wasn't in his rights to retaliate against the Hokage's wrath.

He stood at the middle of the office, a comfortable official chair, a strong wooden desk, several scrolls and the old man's hat – his hat. He couldn't believe the old man wasn't here to see this happening.

He had been inaugurated over a week ago and was now handling the job of ruling the village he loved pretty well, he had help of course, the Kage bunshin perks were stress relieving, he wondered why no one had told him, Kakashi had said he always thought he knew, but he didn't care now, he wanted to live in the now, not in the past or soon to be future.

Sasuke had been furious hearing about the gap in their power and challenged him outright, things had happened fast, fast as in meaning- Sasuke charged Naruto forming a seal and the ANBU beating the hell out of the Uchiha in the name of wrongly assaulting and attempting to murder the Hokage.

Sakura was… well Sakura.

He had begun to accept his responsibilities and begun to see the Hokage for who he truly is… A leader. And he had begun to accept that role.

He was a leader.

He was going to show the world how to be a Kage.

He was going to show himself how to be the Hokage.