#morino ibiki

[rokudaimeplease]

"Rokudaime, whenever you appear with that look on your face... I know that you're going to ask for something troublesome."

bonus:

[scarecrow-in-a-hatake]

Hello! I noticed that there were flecks of gold and green in Genma's eyes, and yours almost look blue sometimes, so I was wondering...

Could we have a close-up of each? Pleeeeaase?

I'll do you one better.

You can thank @morino-ibiki, @idreamofdango, and @whotookmysenbon for putting up with me~

[virtualcarrot]

[KKIR] A dish best served cold

(Posted on AO3)

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Iruka's just about done. All that's left for him is to hand in the files on the last genin graduates, and then he's off.

He can already taste the freedom.

In the Hokage's office, Shizune greets him absentmindedly, looking harried. It's Kakashi who holds out a hand for Iruka's folders, distinctly amused for his part.

"Anything of note?"

Iruka shrugs. "Not since we discussed it. Mind Aburame Miko, and Kuroki Abe needs a stable, reassuring jounin teacher--don't look at me like that, I told you about him, I'm not coddling--but other than that, it's all in the files." He watches Kakashi skim through the folder then close it with a decisive nod. "Will that be all?"

"Y--"

Not even looking up from the pile of documents she's setting aside on her desk, Shizune cuts in. "Actually, Iruka-sensei, could I trouble you with bringing these to T&I on your way out?"

Of all the places...

Iruka balks. "You want me to go to T&I?"

His tone makes her look up at long last. "Yes? Is that a problem?"

She's not the only one who takes notice.

"Do you have a problem with T&I?" Kakashi asks, posture suddenly tense.

"Ah, no, not at all," Iruka says in a rush.

That seems to do the trick, because Kakashi relaxes, eyes curved in a smile. Then he stands. "Good. I'll come along. I need to stretch my legs."

Damn it.

Shizune appears to share that line of thought. "Rokudaime-sama! We've still got--"

"--to go home and rest, you are absolutely right. We'll finish tomorrow."

"But--"

Head cocked to the side, Kakashi gives her a most cheerful smile. "Hokage's orders." He picks the T&I documents from her desk and shoves them at Iruka, who's too polite not to catch them when they slap his chest. "Lead the way."

*

"Is that Iruka?"

"Oh, Iru-chan!"

"Long time no see!"

Iruka holds in a snarl at the greetings that follow them all the way down the T&I wing. Kakashi gives him a few sidelong looks but stays blessedly silent following Iruka's threatening hiss of "Not. One. Word."

The man doesn't have to speak anyway. He's radiating enough hilarity to make up for it.

Ibiki's office is wide open, a sure enough sign the man was awaiting them. He waves them over.

"Ah, Iruka!" He says with a shit-eating grin. Then he tilts his head at Kakashi, who nods back. "Rokudaime."

Kakashi pulls out his book and picks a wall to lean against. "Please ignore me."

With a disgruntled huff, Iruka strides up to Ibiki and slams the documents on his desk. "Here. From Shizune-san."

Instead of taking them, Ibiki steeples his fingers and smiles deeper.

Iruka groans. "Come on, you can't keep holding me accountable for something I did when I was twelve years old!"

"Says who?"

"Says common sense, Ibiki. Come on!"

"I'm not holding you to anything, Iruka. Do feel free to leave."

"You know it's not that easy," Iruka says through gritted teeth.

"Do I?"

Even Iruka's dirtiest look, honed over years managing children, doesn't sway his composure.

Eyes closed on the threshold of the office, Iruka takes a deep breath, steels himself, and walks out.

*

The hallway is empty and the quiet, ominous.

Iruka sighs.

"I don't suppose you'd be willing to give me a hand here."

Behind him sounds the rustling of a page being turned. "Hm?"

"...Right."

Iruka takes note of their surroundings and the variety of subtle differences between now and their arrival. 

There’s a shimmer on the ceiling and a tilted emergency sign with evacuation routes. The fire extinguisher underneath has been bumped. A few feet over, one of the tiles is of a subtly darker tone, parallel to a line of translucence.

Iruka side steps it carefully and then lifts his feet high over the following chakra wire.

To the left, on the wall, he spots a mild explosive tag. He pats himself in search of a pen that Kakashi ends up handing him, nose still too buried in his godawful book to merit any thanks. Iruka scratches a few signs off the tag and then a few more off the twin tag hidden behind the evacuation sign, before pulling both off.

At best the fire extinguisher was left unaltered for safety reasons. At worst, it’s bait. Either way, he doesn’t touch it.

A hurled shuriken is quick to take care of the paint balloon hanging off the ceiling.

Iruka takes great pleasure watching the paint spread to the tile joints.

Until he realizes with dawning horror it's not just the joints that the paint is spreading to but sealing runes scratched into the tile itself, and he hurriedly drops one of the deactivated explosive tags to soak up the paint while he reactivates the other one. The pen almost tears through the paper as he scrawls an alternative trigger but he manages, and he's fast enough that when he slaps it on the tile, it's on time.

The focused explosion leaves a scorch mark and shards of ceramic behind, breaking the seal.

"Nice work!" Ibiki yells from his office.

Iruka should've slammed its door closed.

"Fuck you!"

Laughter is his only answer.

The rest of the journey happens in a similar fashion. Even the water dispenser is rigged, which he finds out when he has to dodge its sudden spray of ink as he makes to walk past it.

Behind him, Kakashi seems perfectly content to hop over the chaos Iruka leaves in his wake.

Though he does put his book away with a grin when they finally reach the exit door.

"Ah good, we're done," he says, taking the lead with a hand on the handle. "Allow me..."

"What, no, Kakashi wait --"

Light flashes, chakra flares and a burst of slime erupts from the door.

It flies everywhere. The ceiling drips, the floor slips, and the walls ooze in the radial shape of a filthy explosion. Nothing near was spared but Iruka, who happened to be shielded by Kakashi’s initiative and the wide shape of his robes.

Horrified faces poke out of the previously closed offices along the hallway.

"Oh no--"

"Rokudaime-sama!"

Grey hair dripping green sludge, the man himself turns around to stare at them, decidedly unimpressed.

"Shit--"

*

"Why the fuck didn't you evade that, Kakashi?" Iruka asks him later while Kakashi’s rubbing his own hair dry with a towel.

They're at Kakashi's place, takeout kept warm on the kotatsu. Having made tea while Kakashi washed up in the shower, Iruka's in the process of setting the tableware.

Kakashi throws his head back in a laugh. "Are you kidding me? Why should I have?"

Iruka's pointed look at the still dripping hair is self-explanatory.

Kakashi grins.

"Sure, but have you seen the look on their faces?"

[succikko-draws]

Happy Birthday Ibiki !

Drew this for @onmywaytofanfic for the occasion ♥

uncropped image here [Nudity]

[Image ID: A digital drawing of a naked Ibiki cheering with a tiny glass of sake in his hand. He's depicted as trans post top surgery, very hairy and heavy with a lot of scars and burn scars on his body. The image is cropped over his waist. /.End ID]

[dangooverflowers]

Give us a funny incedent that happened to you and your buddies.

If you have one for :

Ibiki

Hayate

Genma

Shizune

Kakashi

Guy

“I’ll do you one better; I have a story that features all of the above, sans Hayate, and it all starts with Gai. Surprised yet?”

“After his surgery, word got around pretty quickly that he’d never walk again. It was a damning sentence. You know Gai; he lives and breathes physical conditioning, so you can imagine how crestfallen we all were to hear that he’d never leave his wheelchair. We all assumed he’d be inconsolable too, so we figured we’d do everything we could to help him adjust to this new way-of-life. After all, he’d always kept the lot of us going through the bad times, so it was time to return the favor.”

“As soon as we’d heard, Ibiki, Genma, and I put our money together to buy him some flowers. Kakashi must’ve gotten the same idea about cheering him up, because we met him at the lobby of the hospital. Imagine our surprise when we walk into Gai’s room and find him bound to his wheelchair, neck, wrists, legs, you name it. The wheelchair is locked in place, and he’s parked right next to the window, fear set in his eyes. We’re all confused. Suddenly Shizune just slides into the room with that pig of hers in her arms, congenial as can be.”

“Turns out that Gai, being Gai, had kept trying to hold wheelchair races at the front of the hospital when he really should have been resting his body. Shizune said it was the only way to ensure that he’d stay in his room, but the jury’s still out on that one. I will say this: Ibiki was so impressed with her handiwork, he thought about asking her to teach new recruits how to tie those knots.”

[selenophilephile]

"Hayate you had an entire existential crisis over whether our village were the 'good guys' or not when you got the barest glimpse into what Black Ops missions can entail.

Trust me, you don't need to be ANBU."

I can be tough, Ibiki, I promise! Maybe not as tough as you, but tough! How can I protect Yugao if I don’t even know what she’s up against?

[kason-nvidiade-art]

We've all seen that meme before. Some of have drawn it, and now I have as well!

Sakura is super impressed with Dem Chesticals Ibiki be tryin to contain.

she's waiting for a button to pop. She wants to be there when it does.

[frankencanon]

Ibiki is only a Tokubetsu Jōnin...?!

Ibiki, Head of both Intelligence and Torture & Interrogation, is still only a Tokubetsu Jōnin?!

I'm...shocked. I can't believe this. Tokubetsu?!

Some other characters that are also apparently Tokujō: Anko, Genma, Hayate, Aoba, Raidō...

[konohanohanare]

17?

17. Who is someone that they look up to? ...I know this might be a bit of a weird answer, but @morino-ibiki taught me more about torture than I expected to learn. I was trained to withstand it, but he did give me a challenge, and his creativity and resourcefulness impressed me!

Other than that, @scarecrow-in-a-hatake, whose hidden gentleness saved my life in more ways than he will ever know, and @retiredsenju who trusted me enough to let me find a home in Konoha.

And of course, Naruto-kun, his heart manages to be even bigger than his courage, and that's saying a lot. I'm sure he will be a wonderful Hokage someday.

Thank you for asking!

[shinobinvku]

@morino-ibiki sent: Heated Hot Springs - for Raidō

After weeks of guarding Lady Tsunade on a diplomatic mission, Raidou needed a sabbatical. Fortunately for him, the Godaime was generous enough to grant him extended leave as a reward, and the first thing he decided to do was visit the bathhouse for some rest and relaxation. 

It was a relief to be rid of his clothes. Earlier, he had requested some cold sake to enjoy while inside the bath. After washing himself, Radiou enters the hot spring while wearing only a towel. To his pleasant surprise, it wasn’t crowded. In fact, there was another person inside the bath, someone he recognized right away. 

❝Ah, Morino-san, is that you? ❞ Raidou asked, slowly approaching the edge of the bath to clear his view of the steam. Along the left side of his neck, chest, and bicep are the same scar patterns as the ones across the bridge of his nose. 

He offered the other man a cordial smile, one hand holding a bottle of sake while the other the front knot on his towel. 

❝Hope you don’t mind if I join you? It’s been a very grueling couple of weeks. ❞

He lets his towel drop around his ankles, revealing the entirety of his body, tall, tanned, and very lean. Namiashi sighs as he steps into the water, its warmth already soothing every ache in his tired muscles. Once submerged from the ribs, Raidou turns to Moino and offers him a drink. 

❝How’ve you been? ❞

[whotookmysenbon]

That awkward moment when your boss finds your hellsite blog

[shikaku-the-nara]

"Where the fuck do we start?"

Shikaku grimaced as he looked around at the destruction and chaos that surrounded them, reaching to grab a wall for support as he started to step through the debris. “Well… see what we can find of value and save it, take stock of anything missing that could have been taken and get into the wrong hands and then… well I guess we rebuild the tower. I’m just glad no one was hurt. Do you know what happened?”

[scarecrow-in-a-hatake]

Well, I guess I shouldn't have expected anything else.

Morino aside, does the Yamanaka clan head even know how to blog?

[virtualcarrot]

Morino Ibiki and Umino Iruka

yes?

...

NOBODY UNDERSTANDS MY VISION

[eighthmelody]

Make You Choose Game, BROTP Edition!: Tsunade & Shizune OR Anko & Ibiki?

Tsunade & Shizune for sure. There is a lot more to be seen of these two. With Anko and Ibiki, we can only speculate, which is fun, but it would have been nice to have seen more of them in canon. Tsunade looked after Shizune. When Shizune was old enough, she returned the favor. I love, love, love that aunt/niece dynamic they’ve got going on. It’s funny and wholesome. :3

[dangooverflowers]

How's the first impression you've got from :

Guy

Kakashi

Genma

Yamato

Shizune

Asuma

Ibiki

Izumo and kutetsu

And how's your relationship with each now

Love uu <3

“What’s this!? A love confession!? You shouldn’t have.”

“Guy’s got the heart of a golden-retriever. Always has. When we were kids, even I thought his high-energy was overkill, though. Can’t really blame a kid for being enthusiastic, but there’s more to life than constantly training. Don’t know how Kakashi deals with it sometimes, but I guess it helps to know that everything Guy does comes from a good-natured and well-meaning place. Once you get past his gung-ho lifestyle, he’s a lot of fun to be around, and some of his enthusiasm is pretty contagious.”

“At first, Kakashi has this air of mystique around him that drives people wild, even more-so when you’re a teenage girl. He was kind of a kill-joy back in the day. So much so, that he came off as jerky at times, like he was too good to spend time with the less-gifted children. As you can imagine, I took great offense to this, being the student of a Sannin and all. Life has a way of making you or breaking you, and he’s definitely lightened-up since then. Maybe a lot, when I think about how he reads Master Jiraiya’s smut in the open like it’s the daily news. Outside of that little quirk, Kakashi’s cool. Oh yeah, and before you ask, I have tried sneaking a peak beneath that mask a few times, but he’s always managed to outfox me.”

“Genma is one of those guys that I knew-of growing up but didn’t get to know until we were working on the Chuunin Exams together. He’s got a great sense of humor. Spiced up the paperwork we had to do, anyway. He’s a solid guy, even in spite of that oral fixation of his. I’d work with him again and again.”

“The first time I met Yamato, I thought he had the dullest personality imaginable, even more than Ibiki. It wasn’t until I learned more about his. . .past that I decided that I’d be more patient with him. He’s come out of his shell in some ways. Word on the street is that he can be incredibly intimidating, but I’ll believe that when I see it. Maybe once the dust clears and we get the Village on the right track, I can sit down and get to know him better, but he likes to stay busy.”

“Shizune’s older than me and has always acted like it. I exasperated her when we were younger, so much so that she’d try to scold me. I think she figured that since we were both students of highly-respected ninja then we ought to behave as such, but there was way too much fun to be had in learning techniques and showing them off, as far as I was concerned. I wanted people know who my teacher was and what he was showing me, even if that meant terrorizing the community with the snakes. Hahaha! After Orochimaru left the Village, Shizune tried to help me readjust. She visited me when I was being kept under strict surveillance. She even snuck in dango to me when she knew she could get away with it. We still see each other now and then and catch up when we can, you know, when Lady Tsunade isn’t keeping her on her toes.”

“Being the son of Lord Third, I had Asuma pegged as some pampered brat born with a silver spoon in his mouth. I was convinced that he’d never have to fight for anything in his life and would be given the safest missions a ninja could ever be assigned. I thought I was right when ,sure enough, he became the Daimyo’s personal bodyguard and got to live it up in a palace, of all places. Turns out, I was wrong about him. Asuma was a cool-headed guy who wanted to make his own way in life and didn’t want his father influencing every decision he had to make. I respect that. I wish we could have talked more, but between his team, his father, and Kurenai, there wasn’t much room for li’l ol’ me. Rest in peace, Asuma.”

“I mentioned a while back that the first time Ibiki and I met was during our Chuunin Exams. I thought I could get under his skin, but even back then, this guy had iron-clad mental fortitude. The guy’s a rock. In fact, it’s taken years and the combined efforts of many of us to get this guy to relax and kick up his feet, but we’re getting there. He’s arguably my favorite pet project right now.”

“I don’t have any direct memories of meeting Izumo or Kotetsu. They’ve always kinda been there, in school, on missions. It’s weird thinking of them as individuals because even back when we were all kids, there they were, together. I used to joke that they used to be a two-headed kid that the ANBU found in the woods and Lady Tsunade had to separate them and reattach their heads onto new bodies. Haha! They didn’t like that too much. They’ll throw me a bone and laugh about it now that we’re all older. Anyway, anytime Ibiki needs a prank pulled on him, they’re my go-to guys.”