Once again, slight spoilers from The Last movie!


Theme 3. Light

He has never been a morning person (and lord help the poor fool who disturbs a shinobi in his sleep). But being Hokage meant that he no longer had the luxury of lazy Sunday mornings or any lazy mornings for that matter.

It had been hard at first – Hinata had to enlist the help of Shikamaru to pull the begrudging Hokage out of his bed, much to the latter's exasperation as he grumbled about 'troublesome idiots' under his breath.

It had taken him countless cups of coffee and tea to pull him through the day, until Hinata had put her foot down after murmurs about the Hokage and his crazy antics during his caffeine highs had circulated around the whole village. He had whined at first but knew to not push it further when he sees that look on her face (the memory of her plucking Hanabi's eyes from the bastard Toneri with a straight face and zero hesitation despite the man's screaming, was a scene he will never quite forget).

But now, after several years in the position that he has always dreamed of (at first, a position he craved for the recognition and acknowledgement that he was just a human – not the monster or beast that everyone claimed he was), he thinks that he may actually like mornings.

It is the little things:

The first ray of daylight which touches the delicate features of his wife's face as she groggily opens her eyes and gives him a chaste kiss to wish him luck for the day. And despite the fact that her hair is a mess, there is sleep in her eyes, and she is wearing one of his old faded t-shirts, he thinks that he has never seen anyone so beautiful.

The way that his children crinkle their noses in their sleep when he replaces the blankets that have been tossed and kicked to the side over the course of the night. And as he gazes at their peaceful expressions, still so oblivious and naïve, he is reminded of his determination, his fervent need to protect these times of peace (because he remembers what many of them had lost in the war – youth and innocence at too young of an age).

The crisp morning air as he reaches the Hokage monuments and watches as sunlight lazily threads its way through the sleepy village of Konoha – his village, he adds with swelling pride – and the slow bustling as its inhabitants start to get ready for a new day.

He has never been a morning person. But he thinks he is learning to be.


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