Being Hokage is Hard

Summary: A collection of oneshots about the hard life of the Hokage.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

3:00 PM

Atop the Mountain

Naruto Uzumaki stared at the large mountain wall ahead of him, the image of the five Hokage etched perfectly into the stone. At the end the beautiful woman he had once wanted to call his mother was watching contently over her village, smiling beautifully, and he almost could hear her voice whispering to him.

He sighed and turned around to see Sakura walking up the stairs, a group of young ninja following her as they ventured up the stairs to see the mountain.

"Oh, Lord Hokage," Sakura said, bowing as the children all gathered at her feet, looking up at him.

"Miss Sakura, what a lovely surprise. I see you are teaching again today? What are you kids learning today?" the tall blonde asked, smirking down at them. The children looked at one another but didn't dare speak. They had known full well whom this man standing before them was. The Hokage was the greatest ninja in the village and Naruto Uzumaki was said to have been the greatest of all of the Hokage, his talents so great that no one would ever be able to defeat him.

Suddenly a peep came from out of the crowd and a small girl rose her hand and blushed when Naruto smiled at her.

"W-We were… j-just l-learning about the… Hokage… Lord Uzumaki…sir…" she said, blushing again as the children looked at her. She was the smallest of the bunch, her long brown hair tied off to the side, her clothes too big for her and her eyes a wide blue.

"And what is your name?" Naruto asked, bending down to get a better look at her. The other children backed up, surprised by his question.

"Why is he talking to her?" a child whispered.

"Yeah, she's a nerd, no one likes her!" another whispered to his friend standing next to him. The young girl looked at the ground, blushing and twisting her hands together as she tried to avoid his gaze and smile.

"U-Umi… Umi Hitachi my lord…" she whispered and Naruto blinked once before smiling again.

"Well, Umi, do you see that mountain there?" Naruto asked, moving so she could see it.

"Y-Yes…"

"Do you know who they are?" Sakura smiled down at the little girl, knowing that the young ninja had worked so hard in school to know everything. She often whispered about how she wished to have her face upon the mountain like the other Hokage.

"Y-Yes… they are the Hokage… the past leaders of our village."

"Good. Well, one day my face is going to be up there, and when that time comes, someone new is going to need to be my replacement, and I can tell, even though you are small and don't feel like you can, you are going to be up there, your name the most well known in the land, even more than myself! And do you know what?"

"W-What?" the young kunoichi asked, her eyes sparkling as Naruto spoke to her and her alone. No one had ever acknowledged her like he was.

"You are going to be the light to the village, telling everyone that everything will be alright and you will make the Hokage proud."

She blushed and looked up at the Hokage mountain, her eyes shimmering as she thought of it. Everyone had always called her a small stupid girl who would never be able to fight properly. No one ever said she had potential to ever been anything close to a Gennin, let alone the Hokage!

"L-Lord Hokage! Do you really mean that?" she asked, turning to face him fully, her cheeks extremely red.

"Of course I do."

In a sudden burst of excitement she grabbed at his leg, hugging it tightly, a few tears falling from her large eyes. The other children gasped and Sakura looked a little embarrassed. However Naruto only looked down at her and put his hand on her head, smiling brightly.

"Thank you Lord Hokage!" she said, crying hard as she continued to hug his knee. The other children slowly smiled and ran to hug the Hokage as well, all wanting their turn to bask in his prescience.

"My, Lord Hokage, the children seem to like you…"

Sakura blushed slightly and Naruto nodded at her, grinning like he always did. He looked back at the mountain and nodded slightly, as if thanking them, and the class was shooed away, waving their sad goodbyes to their leader, as he slowly headed back to his desk piled in papers, but he felt like he wasn't going to be wrong.

"Umi Hitachi…"

Invader Hog OUT!