45 Why do Hokages have so much work? (1/2)

(A/N: Just had this thought, and to disprove this later since there will eventually be someone who notices, SUMMONING IS NOT TELEPORTING. It has a different feeling to it from teleporting, which has a certain feeling to it that she remembers seeing as how it traumatized her.)

You know, I wonder if I can take back being Hokage. This has been a long ass morning, I'll explain later, and as soon as I go and get to the Hokage's office I see that it's full of paperwork, I look at Sarutobi who's sitting in front of the desk and see him with a smirk on his face. I rub my temples and go sit behind the desk, ”What is all of this?”

Sarutobi laughs since the desk literally had 0 free space left on it and I can't even see the top of it, there's a good 25 cm thick layer of paper at the least. Sarutobi starts laughing, this is the build up of paperwork for a day since yesterday I was enjoying the festival, but that didn't mean the paperwork stops coming in.” My god.

Sarutobi must have seen my soul leave me because he came up, gave me a pat on the shoulder, and when I looked up to him he out the Hokage's hat on me and passed me a robe. I sigh and put the robe on, it's a surprisingly perfect fit... I don't remember getting measured, did they ninja measure me? Not going to lie, that's impressive if they did it like that. Knowing me, even with this memory upgrade, I probably just forgot.

As Sarutobi walks away he throws something to me and tells me, ”Oh yeah, here's some to get you started with. It goes to one of the Head Anbu so long as space isn't locked down. If you need the Anbu for anything go ahead and just clap or something, they can usually tell.” Why does it seem you don't really know all that much about the Anbu... Weren't you the Hokage? Before I can ask anything else though he exits the door with a smile on his face. He did this just to sucker me into doing the paperwork for him.

I pick up the first set of documents which are held together with... a wooden clothespin. Well that's pretty ingenious I guess to hold papers together. Going through it I realize it's... entirely pointless. It's a report of a Shinobi requesting some funds, and the whole thing is just him convincing me. What the fuck man? 20+ pages of this? That's a waste of paper? I mean it's not like the 1st Hokage is here to go and make a bunch of woo- wait, I got wood release. Huh, if I could find some Jutsu for it I would be able to make a bunch of wood, same with the magnet release that I got. Time release, well I'm fucked there, I have to make my own techniques for that. Huh, wow Jutsu are so useful for making the economy plentiful now that I think about it. Wait that's right, this stupid report.

Looking through it I can tell that this Shinobi is trying to make menial things sound important, and looking at the name it's nobody that I recognize. I mean they put 'Money to visit contacts and supply them with incentives. Contacts may give services due to nature of their main work.' So... you want an excuse to visit, what I'm hoping to be, a massage parlor?

That's it, this report had given me all the reason I need to go and make a team of secretaries. I clap my hands and an Anbu appears before me, ”Yes Lord Hokage?” God this is going to take some getting used to.

I rub my temples, ”I want you to get a team of 5 other Anbu and select 10 people that are highly trust worthy and are excellent at handling paperwork, I would like to interview them. Preferably people who can read behind the lines of what is written. I wish to make that team assist in the paperwork since this isn't something a Hokage should handle, I should handle more important issues than a ninja that wishes to visit a massage parlor.” These are assumptions, but still this is a good time to start as any.

He ponders for a moment, ”Would you like for this to be an official notice or a task purely for Anbu?” Well pros and cons to each, however I would rather have it be public I think, to let people know that I'm already being more proactive about things. I respond to him with my thoughts, causing him to nod and then promptly leave the room.

Well hopefully I'll get some good candidates, I'll need to make sure that they are loyal though, I know some seals I could use... but that would just be cruel and unusual punishment honestly since it happened to some Anbu directly under him. Apparently, a lot of Anbu noticed that the seal ceased existing when I had killed Danzo so they went and spoke to the Hokage about it, burying Danzo even deeper into the hole he had dug for himself.

I wish I didn't have to go through all this paperwork, but I mean I only just sent out the request, it's not like- suddenly there was a knock on my door causing me to look up. I spoke up telling whoever it was to come in, could the news have already spread this fast in already 15 minutes?

After getting myself anxious I see that the person who entered was actually Tsunade, ”Oh I heard from darkness what happened, did you enjoy it~?”

I sigh and lean back in my chair, ”please font remind me of this morning. I don't want to think about that headache right.”

She then gives me a scary grin before leaning on some of the papers, ”Oh? You're telling me you didn't enjoy sleeping with such a cute woman who's much younger than you?” I don't like this Tsunade, go back to cute Tsunade please.

I smile wryly, ”That jealous face is unbecoming of you I hope you know. To answer your question, I would have enjoyed it more it it wasn't that the way we woke up reminded me of my ex.” Tsunade raises an eyebrow.

”What's an X?” Oh yeah, they just have courting... I think, in this world.

I sigh, ”Basically an old lover, in this case it means ex-girlfriend.”

Her face then twists rather evilly, ”Oh, and I never heard about this because...?” Joe, what did you just walk yourself into...

For the next 30 or so minutes I go and I try to dig myself from the hole that I was in and explain Tsunade about how I was hurt by my ex, I also went and told her that, even though I don't think of my ex most of the time, I recall her more and more vividly when I am doing something that was very memorable between us. I told her that's why I was tearing up that one day that we went out.

It's not that I myself was sad, don't get me wrong, it does go and make my heart wrench still, but I am the happiest I have ever been, and I don't want to go and let her hold me back anymore. Well not completely. Seeing as how just small actions triggered those little flashbacks, I'm now worried what would happen when I sleep with a girl, will I go and remember all the times we did it?

For all her faults, my ex was amazing in bed. Now that I think about it, that was probably due to, well, her faults. Sleeping around has its perks huh?