In Your Face, World!

By Yasha Sisters

Chapter Two

Rivals

***

I could not, cannot, will not believe it.

Him.

That dunce, that baka, that clown, that goof, that... that... DOBE!

Has actually become Hokage.

No, no, can't think about it. If I do, I'll just come to accept it. I'm not accepting it. No way.

Rivals since eight years. He was always at the bottom of the class, and me, surpassing the teacher even. I'm not bragging. It's true. People looked at the two of us in contrast and their prediction of who would go farther in life had always the same result.

And yet he managed to achieve his goal before me.

Why in the world did Tsunade, that bloody old hag, have to step down?

God dammit, why can't she humour me...

Oh god, I sound like Naruto.

Blasted Fox is always used to special treatment. He wasn't punished for stealing that scroll. If anyone else had, I mean, even if Kakashi had, they would've been given a one-way ticket to the ranks of the Missing Nin. And then there was Jiraiya. Damned man trained him privately. I bet if I had gotten private training, I could've killed that bastard of a brother a long time ago. Tsunade herself babied him like he was a child. Not to mention that the weakling Hinata is totally head over heels for him. Honestly, the nerve of that woman. Hmpf.

He was always getting into all sorts of dangerous stunts. And he caused up trouble like no other Genin did at his age. You have to wonder about Tsunade's methods, choosing, of all people, him. I mean, wouldn't Konoha be a lot better off with someone like Shikamaru. Lazy ass as he is, he's at least got half a brain.

Whereas that idiot...

Oh god, I don't even want to think about it.

What's he going to do as Hokage, anyway? Decree that Ramen be the official food of Konoha? I would not be surprised. He's going to run this village into the ground.

I should run a bet with Tsunade, the legendary sucker. I'm giving him a week before he's run out of town. No, make that five days.

On the other hand, being friends with the Hokage certainly has its perks. No annoying little nins coming up to me in the middle of nowhere interrupting my training session, because they all know that I'm too important for that. Besides, it's probably all for the best. He could help me beat the crap out of Itachi.

Wait, did I just think of him as a friend?

...

Okay, what the hell did I eat for lunch? I bet Naruto bribed the Ichiraku guy.

Sigh. It's no use denying it. He's become Hokage and that's that.

He's worked hard for it. Maybe... just maybe, he deserves it.

Dammit Sasuke, don't commit blasphemy.

Well, he has been working awfully hard to improve his skills.

He DID rescue me from Orochimaru.

Oh, how I despise being indebted to him.

And he's got the kyuubi really well trained.

Although he still gets mad when I call him a lion tamer. I don't know why he would, it's just the truth, after all.

I think I'll mention that in my little speech during the ceremony.

...

Oh shoot, I'm going to be late.

Sakura's going to kill me...

The only good thing about the whole matter is that he won't rant about wanting to be Hokage anymore.

Oh crap, he's going to think of something else.

We're all doomed.

***

Like it? ^__^