The Other Side of Determination
By: K-promises-fall
K: You should know the drill by now; no summaries. There's no need for them in here. This one is super short. Trust me.
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This should not have happened. He had gotten stronger. He had trained relentlessly. Day after day. Millions of kage bunshin had been used to ensure that he got the best possible training in the least amount of time. He had the fox. He had Jiraiya. With Tsunade as Hokage his position as the Rokudaime was secured, all he needed to do was claim it by proving that he was ready for it. Everything was setting itself up perfectly, so how was this happening?
He was a proud failure, but there was nothing to be proud of right now. Here was someone who could kill him. He couldn't even move! Couldn't call on the Kyuubi to help him out!
He looked up into that smirking face. Kami, how he wanted to wipe that smirk off permanently. He was offered a hand which he begrudgingly held, and was pulled from the ground, collapsing into the victor's arms. The next time he would win. Only the strongest became Hokage, and some smirking smartass wasn't about to take it away.
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K: Told you it was really short. That's like 176 words. That's the shortest thing I've ever written in my life!! …Apart from school work. Heheh. It's just the darker side of Naruto's determination where he gets a bit too arrogant in his abilities and needs a good beat-down. I don't know who it was that beat him. I know that sounds weird, but it's the truth. If asked I would say Hinata. But it could be anybody, Sasuke, Shino, hell even Sakura (though that's highly unlikely), anybody. Review as usual. Don't hate me for the shortness of it. That's why I made this little oneshot citadel, for extremely short oneshots that I wouldn't dare put on their own in this large shark-filled world of fandom.
Ja ne.