#Kotetsu in canon: Wants to fight Izumo. Kotetsu as soon as Izumo wants to fight: NOPE *runs*

[akemi-snow]

KakaIru + Those Four Guys From Naruto

I'll assume you've seen the original versions with the canon couples. (I'd link it but have no idea what the OG really is). Now it's the gae version.

[depressedhatakekakashi]

A Gift From Far Away

Prompt: Birthday/Free Day

Words: 2,082

Note: Happy Birthday to the sweetest dork. I’m sorry this turned into a bit of an inner look on Kakashi and the struggles i think he has in canon (but which never get touched on cuz he’s not the main) but also… no i’m not XD

Birthdays were fleeting. 

Every year Kakashi woke up on September fifteenth and watched as the day passed by at speeds he had never experienced before. From the moment he woke up to the second he dragged himself back into his tiny apartment and fell into bed it felt like someone had turned the day's speed up by eleven.

There was never a moment’s break. His friends made sure of that.

Asuma would be there to greet him as soon as he opened his apartment door, a tiny cupcake in hand and an invite to join him for a morning walk that Kakashi could never muster up the energy to refuse no matter how terrible he was feeling. 

About halfway through their walk Kurenai joined them and offered to pay for breakfast. When they were younger it was just the three of them sitting comfortably in a small booth chatting over omelettes. Now that they were Sensei’s, though, the booth felt a lot smaller with the three of them crammed in alongside nine hungry pre-teens fighting over the food. Kurenai still offered to pay for everyone’s meals, but Kakashi and Asuma had made an agreement with each other to pitch in so she didn’t have to suffer such a giant bill alone.

Once breakfast was done and they’d all said their goodbyes, it was time for training. Even on his birthday, Kakashi likes to make sure he gets some training time in. A fact that Sakura complained about endlessly while she, Sasuke, and Naruto trudged along behind Kakashi toward the training field. He didn’t mind though. She made some good points about everyone needing to rest and enjoy themselves on their birthday, and if it were anyone else's birthday he would agree.

The problem was, it was his birthday, and resting simply meant that the day would drag by. That was the last thing he wanted. So, he trained. Occupied himself during those few fleeting hours when his friends weren’t demanding his attention and tried to forget about the one person he wanted to see, but couldn’t. 

After training and a quick check-in to make sure his students hadn’t died on him, Kakashi made sure to leave Sasuke with a little money to pay for lunch and made his escape.

The rest of the day was spent jumping between his friends. 

An hour playing card games with Gemma, Raido, Kotetsu, and Izumo. 

Two hours enjoying a nice quiet tea with Yamato and listening to his precious Kohai complain about all of the things he had to deal with on his own in the Anbu locker rooms now that Kakashi wasn’t there to watch over him. 

An hour to sit in front of his father’s grave filling him in on everything that had happened in the last year. This year he’d spoken a lot about his students. More than he’d ever dared to speak about them before. He told his dad all about Sakura’s skill with chakra control and genjutsu, Naruto’s hard-headed personality and the endless similarities he saw between his student and the parents who never had the opportunity to raise him, and Sasuke. He spent the most time talking about Sasuke, but where he’d praised Sakura’s skills and fondly remembered his old Sensei and Kushina-San through Naruto, Sasuke was a kid he’d lamented about. A kid who he saw far too much of himself in, and who he couldn’t help but worry about. If his father had really been there with him he might have assured him that everything would turn out alright. There would have been comforting words and promises that Sasuke would make it through all of his struggles just fine. 

The problem was, he wasn’t here. 

He was another body buried in a cemetery that never seemed to stop growing. There were no words of comfort to be spoken and as much as he’d thought talking about it would help Kakashi found he only felt worse at the end. 

Saying his goodbyes to his father, he moved onto the next birthday task. Five precious minutes that he spent visiting with Obito and Rin, and that was only if he managed to keep his thoughts from spiraling downward into those all too familiar feelings of failure, self-hate, and regret. 

Once he’d managed to drag himself away from the cemetery he was certain to find Asuma waiting for him beside the gates. As soon as he was close enough his friend would throw an arm around his shoulder, smile, and offer to buy him a drink. Kakashi never turned down that offer and after that, the rest of the day flew by in a blur of alcohol and laughter.

It would be another three hours before he stumbled back to his apartment with Sake on his breath, Asuma’s laughter still ringing in his ear, and the fond memory of Yamato singing Karaoke so terribly that the entire bar had offered to buy him a drink or five just to get him to stop.

Another birthday came and went, full of friends and cheer, yet Kakashi couldn’t help but feel like something was missing. Something that he still had to do for his birthday to be the fulfilling, wonderful day that all of his friends had tried so hard to make. 

‘It’s him, isn’t it?’ He thought, frowning at his own weakness. ‘There’s nothing to be done. He can’t be here.’

The door creaked open, revealing the emptiness waiting for him inside of his home. A clean table, an organized bookshelf, a comfortable bed, and a plant were all that were waiting for him. 

No unexpected guest that he’d silently been hoping to see all day.

‘I told you’ he scolded himself as he stepped into the room and shut the door behind himself. ‘Not here.’

It was a stupid thing to have to tell himself. A conversation he should never have had to have.

This was Konoha, and no matter how much he wanted to see Gai on his birthday it simply wasn’t possible. An Iwagakure shinobi would never be allowed into the village and where Kakashi had a certain skill for stealth that allowed him to sneak into Iwagakure whenever he wanted to, Gai didn’t share that skill.

He wasn’t a man known for being stealthy and that was just one of the many things Kakashi loved about him.

‘Love,’ toeing his shoes off, he kicked them back towards the door and listened to the clatter of them bouncing against the hard floor. ‘You keep saying that. You should know better.’ 

Love was an emotion that should have been reserved for someone within Konoha, or at least a civilian. The last person he should be claiming such feelings for was an enemy shinobi.

Yet, he couldn’t help it. No matter how much he wanted to be a completely loyal shinobi, it was impossible. His heart had made the mistake of falling for someone he could never be with as openly as his friends were with their lovers.

He couldn’t walk down the street holding his hand like Asuma and Kurenai did. That would only result in him being labeled a traitor and falling down the same path of shame as his father. 

He couldn’t send a letter with anyone but the hounds, because even a whiff of what he would do would result in the elder’s pouncing at the opportunity to have him arrested.

Perhaps a stronger man would cease to care. 

They would choose their own feelings and desires over their village, just as his father had when he chose to save his friends over completing his mission. 

Kakashi couldn’t, though. There were too many people he cared about.

Precious people that he wanted to protect, even if it meant he couldn’t have the life that he wanted. It wasn't the first thing he’d had to give up in his life so he could keep fighting to protect his precious people, but most days it felt like the hardest.

‘Quit it,’ he scolded himself as he trudged toward his bed. ‘Sleep will clear my head. A nice rest and then everything will be back to normal.’ Or, as normal as things could be when his ‘normal’ was longing to see someone that he shouldn’t even be thinking about. 

Reaching the bed he began unzipping his vest when something caught his eye. A small spec of green is sitting just outside the window. Forgetting about sleep for the moment, he took a step toward the window and peered outside of it.

When he saw what was sitting there on the outside ledge his eyes widened and he felt a tightness in his chest that ached just a little, but also caused him to smile.

Somehow, against all odds, he’d managed to sneak into Konoha and leave something at Kakashi’s window. An impressive feat for a man who had failed at hiding his chakra the last time he tried to sneak up on Kakashi. 

“And what is this?” he asked aloud, shaking his head when he realized what he’d done. “Let’s see.” unlatching the window lock, he lifted the window just enough so he could reach out and retrieve whatever it was waiting for him.

The answer came to him as soon as his fingers touched the object. A fabric sort of feeling with just a little bit of fuzziness to it. There was only one thing it could possibly be. Curling his fingers around it, he brought it inside and promptly closed the window once again. 

“I hope you weren’t out there too long,” he whispered, chuckling when he thought about how ridiculous the whole scene would look if any of his friends caught him speaking to an object. “Well, you’re safe now regardless, and now that you’re safe,” he turned the object over in his hand and shivered when the fabric brushed against his fingers. It was a softer fabric than he would usually find himself holding, but then of course he didn’t have a habit of collecting stuffies. “Oh,” the realization hit him as soon as the thought had crossed his mind. Now that he had a good look at it, he knew without a doubt that it was stuffy.

Not just any stuffy, though. A Tortoise stuffy. One that looked oddly similar to a specific tortoise summon that a certain Iwagakure shinobi liked to summon when he found himself in a tight spot.

“You…” his fingers tightened around the stuffy. Inside himself, there was a slew of emotions bubbling up threatening to spill out.

A sadness came from knowing that even on his birthday, the one day that was supposed to be all about him, he couldn’t spend it curled up in his lover's arms with his face buried in his neck. 

Fear at the knowledge that if anyone in Konoha found out about this gift, a tiny turtle that meant nothing to anyone else but held a world of love inside of it for him, he could find himself facing accusations that would make his father look like he’d done nothing wrong. 

Happiness. 

That was the emotion he tried to zero in on. The warmth engulfed his entire soul like one of Gai’s bone-crushing hugs. An inescapable feeling of being wanted and cherished.

Growing up he’d given up hope on ever feeling something so wonderful again when he buried his father, but then Gai came crashing into his life with a terrible bowl cut, the ugliest jumpsuit he had ever seen, and more love than he thought anyone who existed in their world could possibly have. 

Love that he happily shared with Kakashi, an enemy shinobi.

“You…” lifted the stuffy, he buried his nose into it and sniffed. His nose was immediately rewarded with that scent he’d come to love so much. The smell of grass mixed with burnt sugar, sunflowers, and a hint of dirt.

The smell that he had become accustomed to after having spent so much time with Gai over the years. A scent that he would happily surround himself with every day for the rest of his life if he could. 

“Thank you,” he whispered to a man who was most likely tucked away safely in his bed thousands of miles away from him. A man who would never hear his words, but who he hoped could somehow feel the overwhelming love that filled his heart as he pushed his nose deeper into the stuffy and surrounded himself in his lover’s scent. 

[hotwngz]

For the naruto asks: binch all of them?

LOL first u prompt me to talk about my general thoughts on greed and now this. youre a real one

1) favorite villagenot 2 b basic but konoha. And sunagakure. Amegakure is cool too like the architecture is weird but im into it2) favorite kage6th hokage and 5th kazekage 😏3) which villain would you most like to fightI want to throttle danzo4) favorite chunin exam fightgaara vs rock lee for life. But i think sasuke v gaara is a close second.5) how would you have cheated during the chunin examsIf we’re talking abt the written test, Oliver sneaks around and sends me answers via our synced 3rd eye chakras6) byakugan, sharingan, or rinnegansharingan7) which battle was your favoriteGaara v lee. Gaara v deidara. Sasuke vs deidara. Sasuke vs itachi. i still have whiplash from naruto vs pain. shikamaru and kakashi vs hidan and kakuzu. o and kakashi vs pain was fun :))8) favorite female ninja’s outfitlove temari, karui and kurenais lewks.9) favorite male ninja’s outfiti rly like sais gay ass crop top outfit and all of gaaras outfits are cool af. tbh any of them that include those mesh undershirts have my vote10) favorite ninja’s hairdeidara and kakashi.11) how would you wear your headbandstapled to my ass12) what would your ninjutsu beoff the shits no jutsu. Ill tell u what I WANT. i would kill for lightning style anything since ive aways been a hoe for that shit. static shock no jutsu i wear socks and slide across the carpet then i zap u. im also a BIG fan of how extra deidaras explosion release jutsu is. if i could do something like that where its a fun little creative outlet and causes mass destruction itd b ideal. sais jutsu too like its basically the equivalent of the magic pencil in spongebob. doodlebob no jutsu. also evil meals no jutsu bc im a ninja chef on the side13) what ninjas would you want as your teammatesAll my obvious faves but imma highlight shino bc we r both bug loving bitches and shikamaru bc i would appreciate his ability to formulate brilliant strategies but also constantly make fun of him like “omg shikamaru your mind 🤯”14) which opening is your favoriteI answered this 1 already but ill just copy paste. In og naruto besides the obv choice of WE ARE FIGHTING DREAMERS i think opening 2 is still my fave cuz that song slaps. And shippuden openings 1, 4 and… 10. I havent even gotten that far but i have seen that op and its. rly something.15) which closing is your favoriteI mainly remember ending 1 from og naruto like its such a classic vibe and 12 mostly for the song. For shippuden i have several faves so far bc several of them r whack and it cracks me up. 6 bc sasunaru real, and 10 bc everyone is just @ the beach in swimwear for some reason. And then the one where the main chorus is just the word “bicycle” over and over primarily bc naruto and sakura actually complain about it in one of the omakes16) how long have you been into narutoI think its been 7 years but ive been quiet….Im ready to be annoying again now17) do you mostly watch or read narutowatch, ive only read a few volumes of the manga.18) favorite characterbitch i love so many. kakashi, sand sibs, naruto, yamato, deidara, sai, suigetsu, lee, itachi, hidan, shikamaru, tenten, shino…i could go on19) least favorite characteronce again, FUCK danzo. also i like do not care about konohamaru tbh. he gets too much screen time like pls im begging just give it to tenten instead.20) do you own any naruto merchi have a headband and i just got some prints and stuff. And because im me and idk how to save money Im boutta have more soon ;-)21) in the akatsuki what color would you paint your nails..matte black, for the aesthetic22) who would you want your partner to be in the akatsukideidara the original art hoe. & i think id get along with hidan. we r both annoying and a little dumb23) have you ever played any of the naruto video gamesnaruto ultimate ninja storm but idr which one. i miss it tho and i almost want to buy a game console so i can play it again24) weapon of choiceI have no skills with anything except knives so id prob keep it simple with kunai and shuriken. And paper bombs  25) favorite clanAburame, inuzuka and nara cuz bugs dogs and shadows i need not elaborate26) favorite uchihaGenuinely just love the uchiha bros but. itAChiIIIIIIIII27) what animal would you summonhaha snakes. We got ninken why not ninhebi. but i love that tsunade summons slugs tho like i rly identify with that too28) favorite filler episodeEveryones fave: the one where they try 2 see kakashis face. And im now trying to recover from the one in shippuden where naruto and sasuke get their hands stuck together while on a mission. I cannot believe…..29) favorite arcI honestly forget a lot of the arcs from classic naruto but i liked the zabuza arc a lot actually. And the chuunin exams is just a classic. Then out of shippuden the kazekage rescue mission, tenchi bridge, akatsuki suppression mission, pain’s assault and thats abt as far as ive gotten into the series so far30) otpKotetsu and izumo. Also heres the tea: sasunaru is real. Ino and sakura r in love. Temari and shikamaru is like, the only valid canon ship. And kakashi has like 4 boyfriends. The end.31) brotpSharkboy from sharkboy and lavagirl and kisame32) favorite non-human characterpakkun and katsuyu33) favorite bijuuKurama Shukaku and matatabi bc kitty34) favorite jinchurikigaara naruto and killer b35) what ninja occupation would you choosejounin. i like the vest plus im tired and in my 20s so id fit right in.