To be Acknowledged

"I started because I wanted to be recognized… Then I wanted to be the Hokage just to rub it in the face of everyone who told me I couldn't… Now... I just want to protect all of my precious people, because they were able to care about me before I could." After being forced into the light, a better trained Naru is thrown onto a new team, but Asuma is mostly sure he can make it work.