Kakashi:

You know, i can see why people would say Kakashi would lose a fight to Hashirama and Naruto. He would. They’re litterally god status shinobi

I think Minato and Tobirama are overrated but i’n tired of fighting with thise fans

But Hiruzen and Tsunade are Hokage’s who Kakashi is on par with. Stats wise Kakashi is between them (Hiruzen has 34, Kakashi 34.5 and Tsunade 35) meaning they’re all very close in skill. Tsunade obviously has her 100 healings which would make her incredably difficult to defeat obviously

But I think people are REALLY over hyping hiruzen. He’s known as the strongest of his generation and the professor but like… His biggest accomplishment is knowing a crap ton of jutsu’s

Which is obv impressive but Kakashi knows more

Both Kakashi and Hiruzen have all the elements mastered

Both of them are incredibly strong and talented shinobi known for being the strongest of their gen (with Kakashi’s friend actually being as strong as him and surpassing him by using the eighth gate while Hiruzen’s friend just stole Uchiha eyes and died a meaningless death but that doesn’t count towards them personally)

How does Kakashi keep getting religated to ‘weakest Hokage’ when Hiruzen and Tsunade are the same level of him, each with different skills

Sorry I gotta call out of work I have to go mourn the bestest little robot there ever was

Someone's talking malicious shit about Sakumo and attempting to put him out of business. Good thing Sakumo's gym buddy is the world's greatest medic corporate lawyer.

This puts Shizune and Kakashi in each other's orbit.

It is very cute.

Tsunade and Sakumo are too busy crying over how cute it is to realise their two kids are plotting to take over the corporate world.

(Idea for medics being lawyers in business AU comes from Doodlebotbop on AO3.)

kakashi six feet amv

Kakashi is so humble. Like he’s the Rokudaime and just chilling with his friends watching the chunin exams. He probably could have had a box seat, but no. He’s hanging out with the rest of the sensei’s. 😭

this was the moment where i knew i was a goner.  

i didn’t even LIKE this show back when i watched these episodes, and yet i specifically remember mumbling “oh my god” when i heard those steps on the porch and kakashi’s gentle voice saying can i talk to you.

the idea that this man would even take the time.  kakashi met these people two days ago.  he’s a total stranger to them.  he’s not responsible for inari.  he’s not a part of inari’s family.  he’s a temporary employee, one who’s not even being paid for his work, thanks to tazuna’s lie.  he has absolutely no reason to get involved when this tiny child has a meltdown at the dinner table - and yet.

out he goes onto the porch, after the crying child.  the fact that he does this at all would be admirable enough in its own right, but it’s not just that.  it’s the way he’s such a natural with children, the way he’s such an intuitively skilled teacher, the way he treats inari with the same kind of respect that he would afford to a fellow adult, while still addressing him in a way that a younger mind can easily understand.  it’s the “can i talk to you” - giving this little child the autonomy to say no, instead of using the fact that one person is an adult and one is a child to force an interaction.  it’s the way he always refers to kaiza as “your father,” even though inari and kaiza weren’t technically related (and even though the first thing tazuna says about kaiza is “he wasn’t [inari’s] real father”) - kakashi takes his cues from inari, and for inari, kaiza WAS his real father, and so that’s what kakashi calls him, every single time.  it’s the way he acknowledges that what naruto said wasn’t very nice.  it’s the way he gently explains the circumstances that might have prompted naruto to say something like that, opening inari’s eyes to how naruto and inari have experienced similar pains.  and it’s the way he does all of this without giving away a single hint that his own childhood might have been anything other than perfectly pleasant - the complete decentering of the self, the mending of the children around him without them ever realizing a single thing about why he does it.

kakashi tells inari “i think [naruto] knows better than any of us what you’re going through” - and at the time when i was watching, i was like “sure, sounds legit!”  but now, looking back, and armed with so much more information, i know the truth, which is that there’s someone in the room who understands inari even better than naruto.  naruto grew up without parents, yes.  but the story tazuna tells Team 7 isn’t about growing up alone and shunned as an orphan.  it’s about inari having a father who he loved and revered (“the man who taught us the word courage, who was known as a hero”), and then having him be (literally, on an actual cross) crucified for standing up for what’s right (“this man has defied the gato corporation…he has disturbed the order of this land”), and then inari having a trauma-induced crisis and rejecting his father’s heroic ideals because they no longer feel real or possible to him (“since then, inari’s changed.  so did tsunami, and all our people…we lost our will”), and then inari ripping his father’s face out of their family photo in the kitchen (“[inari] never laughs or smiles anymore.  ever since that day when everything changed.”)

naruto and inari do end up connecting eventually, because kakashi helps them recognize where they have common ground.  but the person at the table who really understands the crying child (the child who’s shouting “there’s no such thing as a hero!”) is kakashi.  the person who really understands inari’s anger at being left behind - at having a beloved parent make a decision that takes them out of your life forever, when they could have just kept their heads down and stayed with you - is kakashi.  the person who understands both inari’s rage at others’ idealism and his unwillingness to break gato’s rules as feelings that come from a place of fear (“gato’s got a whole army; he’ll beat you down and they’ll destroy you!”) is kakashi.

you told me that you’d protect me and this land with both your arms.  you made me believe you could do it.  but it was all just a lie! 

kakashi understands.  he knows, and just like always, he steps in to help.  he sees a suffering child, and he knows he can do something about it, and he gets involved, even though he doesn’t have to, even though it’s not his job, even though there is literally no reason why he should be the one to comfort this kid when inari’s mother and grandfather are sitting right there in the same house.  kakashi doesn’t do it because he’s obligated.  he does it because he can’t NOT do it, because this is who he is, because this is how much he cares, because he’s the avatar for what jiraiya tells young!nagato in the pain arc: “it is because one understands such pain that generosity towards others becomes second nature.”

this scene with inari is in episode TWELVE.  twelve, of one thousand.  at this point in the show, we know nothing about kakashi.  we have no idea what his life has been like.  but this show still tells us exactly who he is, right then and there, when he walks out onto that porch and asks a stranger’s crying child “can i talk to you?”  from that point on, we know - he’s The Teacher.  he’s the one who walks ahead of everyone else, enduring his own pain and using it to help others navigate theirs.  he’s the support structure.  he’s the guide, the protector of children.  it was true nine hundred episodes ago in the land of waves, and it’s true where i’m currently watching, too, in the shadow of the infinite tsukuyomi, when kakashi asks sasuke “what is your current dream?” - because never mind the war, never mind the three intervening years of conflict and bad blood, never mind the danger encroaching on all sides - kakashi is still kakashi.  he’s still the one who sees a lost child and asks, “can i talk to you?”  

i’m not sure he’ll get a response as positive as inari’s this time, or that he’ll get any response at all, but i think it matters to remember that nothing - nothing - has ever changed him from being the kind of person who asks this question.

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🍵🍡KAKASHI-CENTRIC FIC RECS 🍡🍵

[no specific order, mind the author tags, be sure to grab a snack or two for the ride]

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Team Minato:

Change in Plans by frogloser.

How It All Began by Lagadette. (Minato and Kushina).

Trails Left in Stardust by SansThePacifist.

Wherein Kakashi, Rin and Obito are Soulmates by cyan96.

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Team 7:

a heap of details, uncatalogued, illogical by 100demons.

i lived the fall (of your letting down) by RecklessWriter.

Late Again and A Clean Break by GwendolynStacy.

Something To Look Forward To by Oroburos69.

The Consequences of Reality by LadyAndHerCat.

Unexpected Guests by Asuka Kureru.

Waking Up by checkerbloom.

wild boy, run home by Liatheus

Paper Moon by Anjelle

A study of two corpses prior to their deaths by forgetme

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Kakaobi +/- Team 7 Long Fics:

komorebi by tomorrowsrain.

Kamui Blues by @butter--peanut.

Love Will Find You (This Is a Threat) by @sthene.

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H/C or whump (mostly gen):

A Little Blood Never Hurt Anyone by @depressedhatakekakashi.

believing in heroes by guycecil.

Death is Highly Underrated by ChipsAndDip.

For Warmth by magnificentbirb.

Freedom in the Eyes of Another by Oroburos69.

In Your Place by FrznLights.

others should not count the price by fencesit.

RED by kurgaya.

resting on a bed of wildflowers by ihopethelightwillshineupon.

Uneasy Lies The Head by Hiiraeth.

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Dark/Sad Themes:

Orange Sherbet by @kakashiswilloffire. tw for suicidal ideation.

Until it Happens to You by worldturnedupsidedown. tw for rape.

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AUs / Canon Divergent:

accidental power acquisition by @mothervvoid.

Bookends series by @padmerrie

Ear to the Wall by Vodkassassin.

Focus, then Refocus by jimmythemystic.

My Fine and Distant Future (and anything else) by Anonymous Author.

The Same Broken Fractions by pygmelions.

Temporary by Ourliazo.

We were lighting across the whole world by Drakojana.

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Sakumo Fics that may or may not have made me weep like a small child:

A study of two corpses prior to their deaths by forgetme.

Ghost by Saengak.

Paper Moon by Anjelle.

to take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you? by @mothervvoid.

wild boy, run home by Liatheus.

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Hope you enjoy, and if you do, be sure to leave a little ty note to the author in the comments box on ao3 + feel free to come scream in my inbox about a fic, or submit a post if you have a rec!

Please direct them either to this blog, or to my new sideblog of a sideblog, @icha-icha-book-club.

In a recent reblog I saw your talking about some of Kazuhiko Inoue's audios... I've only heard the innocents but not spicy ones 👀✨ do you have the link by any chance? 🤭

Sure! I have them in a neat folder on google, please DM me for a link 😁

(P.s. I’m trying to get a full collection, so any additions are welcome 🤭)

Kakashi of the Sharingan's Evolution

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