"You can't go in to this with doubt, you'll either be Hokage or you won't. There's no point wasting time to aspire for something if you're okay with it not happening." He nodded, seemingly satisfied before he turned on her.

"I'll give you some advice," he began, putting on his best soap-box sensei voice. "I grew up with Obito, and despite him not being a complete stranger to failure the one thing that he never failed to do was believe in himself. Every day he reminded us that he'd be Hokage one day, even after falling flat on his face from his own stupidity."

He put his hand on her shoulder, smile reassuring. "As long as you believe in yourself and give it all you've got, it shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks."