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#i really think getting the chance to talk to sakumo was groundbreaking for kakashi. especially because so much of himself was
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kakashi's death still kinda fucks with me
#naruto#free fucking closure!#i really think getting the chance to talk to sakumo was groundbreaking for kakashi. especially because so much of himself was#built on and over that old old hurt#i mean. the whole reason kakashi originally devoted himself to the village so wholeheartedly#was because he had something to prove. he was the obedient hound of the leaf for years. and all because he was making up for the verdict#the verdict laid down on his father by the same people he chose to protect.#kakashi Spurned his father's choice. he was angry with him for leaving him. he blamed him for the village's wrath towards them both#and so he completely and totally devoted himself to the rules and regulations of shinobi. he became a dog for the village to use.#and of course#as all things do#this bitterness slowly faded with time. as kakashi became less of an angry person. as he grew up#stopped being a kid desperate for the village's approval#and eventually kakashi figured out that people and the bonds you share with them are more important than anything.#and eventually (much later) he figured out that it was worth it to keep building those bonds even after losing so much#and after all this#after he's a completely different man than the tiny kid who walked in on his father's corpse#he meets him again.#and kakashi finds that he's not angry anymore.#in fact. many moments have passed in his life where he deeply understood his father in a way he probably was never meant to#but right now. he's tired. he's been tired. but right now he has time. he can sit by the fire#he can tell his father all about everything he missed. about the man he became without him. and it won't be bitter. it'll just be a story#anyway.
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