"Doesn't matter to me if he's scary or not," Kiba groaned, just short of an eye roll. Man, Iruka-sensei should have known that the Hokage being a scary guy would probably make Kiba more inclined to go up and face him - the fact that he wasn't didn't help much.

"I just got a problem talking with authority. I'll end up saying something to make everything worse off than it was before.