#using kakashi’s kids against him😔

[im-still-watching-anime]

tsunade: i’m quitting as hokage so you have to be the next one

kakashi: what? lmao no

tsunade: you’re the only candidate who would pardon sasuke, if you don’t do it he stays in prison

kakashi: ……are you using the kids to blackmail me into becoming hokage?

tsunade: yep. have fun being in charge.

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crying this is vaguely related but did you guys know neji appears in a time travel episode(/arc?) in the boruto anime. does it surprise you to hear that it makes me extremely mad

but also so true LMFAO i'm usually the type to give things a chance (or so i'd like to believe) but not much of boruto interests me 😔 some of the kids look cute and i like.... like..... a few of the timeskip designs (...like three of them? i like suigetsu karin and tenten's.) but it's not worth it and in fact i think having to see neji and hiashi alive in the same UwU Family space would have had me banging my head against a wall.

also what if they made him ugly. that's my perfect angel boy they can't do that.

HEHE ofc!!! part of the reason i love posting fanart is that i get to spread propaganda for the things i like LMFAO

and i'm glad people enjoy the funny sharky ears they're my favorite <3

ASDMKASD eu acho que esse é o maior contato com outros brasileiros que já tive quando posto arte e afins, é bem interessante

eu consigo imaginar o tipo de coisa da qual vc reclama, eu acho bem chato tbm GFKMGFM

fave i respect the movement though i'm more of a short king gaara truther myself bc i think it's cute. sasuke still the tallest of the boys tho

thank you!! and hehee this ended up being more me ranting about their general writing but :)

i'm veeeery fond of their og naruto dynamic, i think it often goes misunderstood/understated but to me it's one of the highlights to the original series! from stuff like kakashi shielding him from orochimaru and sealing his curse mark (which. btw. crazy. LOVE that scene) to the ENTIRE deal with chidori and the pride kakashi felt watching sasuke fight gaara with it... i think it's SURPRISINGLY well done! while i due to personal preference like to read it as specifically familial, i think you can read it anyway you want (not all mentor-type dynamics need to be familial in nature and not being so won't make it any less meaningful)

i don't think kakashi was a particularly great teacher (in fact i think tenzo is shown to be a MUCH better captain/mentor the moment he's introduced to team 7 lol) but you can certainly tell that he cares about all of the kids and wants to do right by them, it's just that with sasuke specifically to me it feels like it's of highly personal significance to him?

and it's not hard to see why, obviously kakashi and sasuke do not have the same trauma but i find it reductive to say that it means kakashi can't see himself in him at all, or that he can't be of any use to sasuke? one of my favorite scenes is the (... i think mildly controversial, from what i've seen?) one where he talks to sasuke on that tree and tells him to drop his revenge quest, because while yeah it was not a perfect effort, to me it's clear that 1. kakashi was being very genuine in his words and 2. that it like... almost worked? sasuke was very sincerely pondering his words before the sound 4 came along.

btw so funny that both kakashi and obito tie him up when talking to him. anyway

so you add that with the weird relationship kakashi has with the entire uchiha clan, starting with obito (the very reason kakashi is able to teach sasuke in any meaningful way at all), going through itachi if you treat team ro as canon WHICH I DO, I LOVE TEAM RO, and ending with sasuke, who is someone kakashi can still try to give a normal life to? yeah i can see why he might feel personally responsible for him!

sasuke's side is less in your face but like... sasuke sought kakashi out to help train him and very much echoes kakashi's words about not abandoning your comrades. he is also often the first one to understand where kakashi is going with something, him and kakashi have similar ways of going through life even if kakashi has majorly mellowed out with age.

there's also little things like how sasuke just had no qualms about walking into kakashi's house unannounced (after itachi beat his ass ty itachi looove u itachi), even before that, how when kakashi calls sasuke over while itachi+kisame are having tea, sasuke just kind of announces that he HATES sweets (so cute), as if he made the assumption kakashi either bought it for him or was thinking about it? like.

look at his baby face.

despite whatever route it ended up taking To Me it's very clear that they did have a special bond and that it was a VERY important part of sasuke's everything pre-shippuden, he was clearly comfortable around kakashi despite his standoffish attitude. it was not perfect and kakashi does hold blame for a lot of things (in general he has a very hands-off teaching style that doesn't work great with these kids), but that's like. part of why i like it you know! it's a little complicated but not through any ill will. it's just that they are both full of Issues lmao

it makes me ssoooooo saaaaad that they BARELY speak to each other at all in shippuden because like. that was one of THE dynamics in the original team 7 you know? and idk if it comes as a surprise but i'm not even OPPOSED to sasuke wanting to kill kakashi by the time they meet again? in fact i think it could be kind of awesome. because like he could have a lot of reasons to be angry with him, up to and including the mere fact that kakashi took SO LONG to even meet him again?

(remember when team 7 finally meets sasuke again w/ tenzo and sai, and he himself mentions kakashi? it's one of those things you can choose to dismiss as meaningless dialogue but i often do think about it lol)

but instead we have sasuke in the peak of his borderline-demonization by the writing, which just leads to there not being much of an interesting dialogue at all. i'm not opposed to kakashi's sharingan being something that sasuke comes to resent either — it could be very fun character writing as that is the very thing that encouraged them to bond in the first place —, but i don't like the way it was done and i ESPECIALLY hate how it was immediately dropped like BROTHER MY PLOT THREADS... THEY'RE FALLING APART...

i could go on about a thousand different other things, such as.

sorry to mention jiraiya but. the rasengan vs chidori thing is VERY telling; jiraiya is naruto's mentor, and kakashi is sasuke's, this is reflected best when the kids each use their respective Overkill Jutsu at each other and the adults each take responsibility for their own kid

again, i'm unsure if it's fully intentional but there is this opposition of orochimaru vs kakashi other than the obvious confrontational scene they have. the very fact that kakashi is the one to put a limit to orochimaru's literal influence on sasuke through the curse mark is a very interesting narrative choice! kakashi is also extremely afraid of orochimaru and highly protective of sasuke; again it reads as a Personal fear/protectiveness rather than purely Professional to me. it builds this idea of kakashi being one of sasuke's choices, and orochimaru being the other (and we know which one he chooses unfortunately lol)

chidori in general is like. crazy btw. it becomes sasuke's signature move. and it's kakashi's creation. hi

this is also something that was dropped but there was also the occasional pointing out of similarities between, fucking, lee and gai of all people vs kakashi and sasuke? and like i don't need to explain this one that much right. gai is lee's dad in like everything but name LOL (and much like kakashi he also has questionable habits when it comes to how he teaches his kid)

but this is way too long LMFAO my tldr is that I Like Them And I Wish They Had More Screentime </3

their dynamic concretely to me is about caring very much about someone who shares a lot of pain with you, but being a little intimidated by that shared aspect. nothing hurts more than failing / being failed By someone who you know DOES understand you, in the end!

it's all my personal preference of course there's no right or wrong way to read naruto (well the wrong way is thinking it's good.) (joke) but i WAS surprised to not see sasuke and kakashi's relationship being discussed more (esp. with empathy for both characters) because well. obviously it's one of my favorite naruto things GFKDMGKFDM

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kae kae kae!!!! how about 1, 3, 5 for yuuji....2, 4, 6 for mr zoro....7, 9, 11 for kakashi, and 12, 14, 16 for c*ilde

kendall kendall kendall—thank you for playing along!!!! i hope your friday is treating you well <3

YUUJI

1. nose kisses or forehead kisses? yuuji is a nose kisser even though it would be easier to kiss my forehead bc it’s closer to him! and i am partial to kissing his sweet, freckled nose <3

3. heavy, hot, and passionate kisses or soft, sweet, and tender kisses? EVIL QUESTION!!!! i think most of our kisses start out as tender, but quickly devolve into horny kissing.

5. hugs from behind or hugs from the front? i think he likes to sneak up and hug me from behind, whereas i’ll crash into his chest when i need a little lovin!

ZORO

2. neck kisses or thigh kisses? why pit two bad bitches against one another? 😔 i’m inclined to say thigh, although neck kisses are more discreet. thigh kisses in private, and sly neck kisses in public when no one is looking.

4. spooning or one person laying their head on the other's chest? hmmmmmm tbh it’s really 50/50! if he’s already asleep then i kinda burrow in his side or lay my head atop his chest. but if he’s awake, we love spooning <3

6. “pancake” or “waffle” hand-holding? WAFFLE! we do not recognize pancaking in this household.

KAKASHI

7. romantic dinners at fancy restaurants or take out dinners on the couch? take out 100%! we’re both homebodies and are most comfortable at home, enjoying one another’s company.

9. playing with each others’ hair or giving each other back massages? i play with his hair bc he’s dog coded and deserves all the scritches; he massages and scratches my back every night before bed <3

11. calling each other by their names, plain and simple, or calling each other really flowery pet names? kakashi is not a flowery pet name guy, and i’m not a flowery pet name gal! we have shortened nicknames for one another. i call him “kashi,” and he calls me [REDACTED].

CHILDE

12. constantly hanging off of each other or keeping a tame distance in public? i’m not big on pda but he can’t keep his hands off of me. i kindly remind him that i will break his arms if he feels me up in public :-)

14. honeymoon at disney world or honeymoon on an island? it’s on a fatui-controlled private island bc he’d rather die than have anyone else around us (me) post-matrimony </3

16. kids or no kids? he wants mini demons, i do not. ultimately, i win bc it’s nonnegotiable for me!

[youth-no-jutsu]

For the Ninja Ask Game, how about 19?

nineteen. are you interested in becoming a kage?

absolutely not. i would never want to be a politician in a primary leadership role over a military ninja village. just look at the way this fandom vehemently hates hiruzen sarutobi. that man was hokage for AT LEAST thirty years of his life. have you seen what US presidents (i’m using that example bc i’m unfortunately american 🥴) look like after four or eight years. besties out here looking ROUGH, took twenty years off their life span. hiruzen was hokage through MULTIPLE wars. he became hokage during the first war, was acting hokage during the second and third, and THEY EVEN DRAGGED HIS ASS BACK FOR THE FOURTH ONE. he finally got to retire from being the ninja president and then his replacement, minato, died in like his first five minutes of office. he didn’t have time to be with his own family, as made clear by asuma’s backstory in shippuden— not to mention naruto’s whole situation as hokage in boruto. it’s clearly a very time consuming job. hiruzen kept that shit on lock for thirty years, sacrificed all his free time AND his life, kept the village safe from orochimaru, and still 98% of the fandom despises him bc he didn’t have time to raise naruto 😭 bro he didn’t even have time to raise his own kids!!!! kakashi and tsunade made it clear they didn’t enjoy their time as hokage at all and both desperately tried to avoid taking on the position at all. minato died. apparently a lot of the fandom hates tobirama. i’ll be honest i don’t really know much about the ‘rama senju bros. i guess hashirama is decently liked after his ten minutes of screen time. does danzo even count?? he got KO’d even faster than minato 😬😳

idk it just seems like the choices as kage are: the fandom hates you, you die a tragic and violent death, you begrudgingly assume the position of hokage against your will, or you have to sacrifice the opportunity to raise your children and be w your family while also putting them in extreme danger (rip kushina and konohamaru’s parents🙏). it’s not the kinda life i’d wanna live. i already have enough anxiety and mental illness. also being in charge of making major executive decisions for an entire village of people is not an easy job by any means and sometimes all you can do is choose the lesser evil. ESPECIALLY during war times. i don’t have the composition for that. or for churning out a constant stream of child soldiers.

the role of leader is an important one, but it is not for me. 😔✌️