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Happy living in your world

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sometimes (always) i sit around and think about how kakashi, specifically, is the one who sails in at the last moment to stop sasuke from using chidori to kill the only two people he’s ever been able to call his friends.

it’s more than just a teacher showing up to protect students in danger.  it matters that it’s kakashi, specifically, who grabs sasuke’s lightning-swathed wrist and forcibly wrenches him away from making the worst mistakes of his life.  it matters that it’s kakashi, specifically, who stops sasuke from having to live with the kind of agonizing regret that kakashi himself, blameless though he was, has been tortured by for years.  

kakashi, in his capacity as a jonin leader, has always been defined by the declaration he makes to himself at the end of the anbu arc - “whatever happens, i can’t allow a tragedy like that to occur again with a new generation of shinobi.”  everything he does is done with the explicitly articulated goal of never letting another child suffer the same way he did, or die in the same horrifying, senseless way as his own friends and family.  stopping sasuke from killing naruto and sakura isn’t just about preventing yet another needless death; it’s about preventing the creation of another young person who can’t sleep at night because all they dream about is their burning hand buried in their friend’s chest.  the protective action is multi-directional, springing from the same selfless roots as everything else kakashi does: i don’t want anyone else to go through what i went through.  i don’t want anyone else to live the life i lived.  

kakashi knows full well what’s it’s like to live with the knowledge that you killed someone you cared about, and even though what happened in his case wasn’t his fault, it almost destroyed him.  if sasuke deliberately murders one of his friends - kakashi knows it’s something he won’t ever be able to come back from.  that kind of mistake is a hole sasuke won’t be able to climb out of.  and even though sasuke left the leaf village a long time ago, kakashi, particularly at the beginning of 214, is still trying to preserve an avenue of return for him.  he’s still trying to save sasuke from doing something unthinkable, something that can never be undone.  

i often think back to what naruto says to gaara, way back at the end of the chunin exams arc, when gaara asks “why would you do this for anyone but yourself?” - and what naruto says in response is “because they saved me from myself.”  that’s what kakashi is doing for sasuke in these scenes, even if sasuke doesn’t acknowledge it yet.  kakashi isn’t just protecting naruto and sakura from sasuke; he’s protecting sasuke from his own worst impulses.  at the most catastrophic of moments, kakashi averts disaster and arrests sasuke’s most self-destructive urges, stopping him from making a mistake he can’t take back, from doing something he’ll regret for the rest of his life.  and if sasuke ever does make it back to the light some day, it’ll be not only because of how deeply his friends believed that he could make it home, but because of how hard his teacher fought to keep him from destroying himself before he had the slightest chance of getting there.

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This is a bit of a personal rant, I'm pretty sure everyone knows more or less where I stand reggarding the Naruto dads, but the point is... Fugaku deserved better!

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[buguu布菇] - reposted w/ permission

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this is how the pose works btw… probably

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Pls

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SLAM DUNK FA!!!!!

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drew fanart for one of my favourite bktd fics: heaven can wait by bluemoonrabbit.

even if you’ve never watched/read nge, go check it out (and then be so delighted by the fic, you go watch nge. like me!)

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bakutodo ft. boba liker shouto

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When the power couple arrives 💥🍰

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art collab with @/leiluco on twt :333

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