Chapter 1 : prologue
"No."
"Yes."
"No"
"You do know that you don't have a say in this."
"Well then I'm counting on your mercy."
"Then I'm sorry to inform you that-"
"I'll fail them."
"You don't have the heart to do that if they don't deserve it."
"But-you can't-I mean this is so -!
''It is, but it's the rules, every hokage candidate has to have trained a genin team that has attained chunin before they can officially take the position."
"But you didn't! and Tsunade didn't!"
"At the time, the village was desperately in need of a leader, and Tsunade was one of the only options, and in my team Kakashi couldn't wait to get rid of the position , but all the other hokages had genin teams, or atleast ninja that they had trained."
Sarada's shoulders slumped, not finding a single argument to say.
"…"
"So?" Naruto asked hopefully, he really didn't want to force her into the position.
"Fine, but I'm not going easy on them on the test."
"Test?"
"What? You think I'm going to be satisfied with the academy test? If I'm going to be stuck with for at least the next five years, I have to make sure they got they're tough."
"Fine, just don't be too rough on them, and here." He said as he handed her a file.
"You've got to be kidding me." She said as she shot a glare towards him.
"You've got a lot on your plate team 7 captain, so you can go."
Sarada glared one last time at the hokage before she opened the door and headed out.
"And there was a time she wouldn't have dared look him in the eye, now she's throwing sasuke level glares at me." He muttered as he moved towards the window, and his gaze landed on the third Hokage's face, the one who cared for him in his childhood, the one who inspired multiple shinobi and taught them lifelong lessons.
Sarada has yet to learn the lesson he learned from the third and applied on numerous young ninja, the lesson that every hokage must learn, cause a hokage doesn't just protect the village, he has to teach other ninjas to protect it too.
The twenty-year-old is renowned across the shinobi world as one of the heroes that saved the world when the kages were missing, which made a lot of people look up to her, especially children, who he has seen multiple times follow her around and ask for training or autographs.
"I gotta see if they're tough if I am going to be stuck with them for the next five years."
Now's the final test, and this will show if she's tough enough to lead a village full of people who look up at her.