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“well maybe I’d like this character better if they made more logical decisions in highly emotional moments” what if I hunt you for sport 

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Day 4 of Daily Gaara 2025

Sunagakure’s Kazekage

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I love when characters are their own content warning.

This is a character who walks into a fan work with a dead dove hanging around their neck like an albatross (or, depending on their vibe, like a mink shawl).

And we're not going to apologize or sidestep that, we're just going to own it and move forward with all their fucked up baggage, whether that baggage is unpacked or used to bludgeon someone or hurled into a river with the rest of the evidence.

Content warning: [character], with all that their presence implies.

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panels that prove to me that iruka and all other academy instructors have nerves of steel/are slightly unhinged for dealing with things like this day in and out willingly:

like. being a chuunin/jounin and going out on missions solo or with a team is one thing… teaching small children how to handle deadly weapons and having to trust they won’t accidentally hurt/kill themselves, each other, or you in the process is another.

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Although Hinata was born in winter, I always associate her with summer 🌻❤️

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tenten practice

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baby Naruto, baby Kakashi and baby Gai

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my gift to @mandapandabug20 for @kakairu-discord-server's gift exchange

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Another doodle for the holidays

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end his suffering

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Top Femslash Ships Bracket - Round 1 Side 1

This poll is a celebration of fandom and fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

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OP I have some wonderful news for you!

The Beholder on AO3 fits with this! (It is Very Explicit, just in case that isn't your cup of tea)

Didn't turn out the way I wanted it to but oh well, it gave sukea vibes too

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team 7 dog pile!

(AU where they all make it to jounin rank together and then ambush their former sensei (plural) in celebration)

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Testing a Theory

AO3 link in the replies

Wordcount: 736

Characters: Kakashi, Iruka, Shikamaru, Shizune (briefly)

Ships: Implied/Referenced KakaIru

Rating: T

Other Tags: Established Relationship, Light Sexual Humor, Post-Fourth Shinobi War, Hokage Hatake Kakashi, ANBU Hatake Kakashi

Summary: Kakashi has wanted to try something for years.

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Tsunade barely stays long enough to put the hat on Kakashi’s head before she vanishes. Which is fair enough. Shizune lingers a bit, walking beside Iruka as they follow Kakashi and Shikamaru up into the hokage’s office, Tonton cheerfully leading the way.

Someone does have to clear the last of Tsunade’s stashes out of the office, Iruka supposes. At least it won’t have to be him.

Kakashi stands in front of the desk in silence, looking almost melancholy as Shizune stacks up half-drunk bottles into a storage scroll. And empty bottles. And a few that look untouched. And then she opens another drawer and keeps going. Shikamaru looks like he might be disassociating to avoid the awkwardness, it's the same look he used to get in class whenever Chouji and Ino started fighting.

Kakashi meanwhile is almost certainly dissociating.

Shizune closes a third drawer, pockets the storage scroll, and places one, unopened bottle labeled 'For Kakashi, good luck brat' in Tsunade's distinctive, near-illegible handwriting. Iruka has a moment of relief at realizing he is never going to have to decipher the Godaime's scribbles ever again before he looks at Kakashi's back and realizes with a growing sense of dread that he is going to have to decipher the Rokudaime's scribbles instead. (And probably the Nanadaime's too, kami help him. Naruto's seal work may be effective but his penmanship still leaves so much to be desired.)

Shizune meets his eyes as she leaves, a silent 'good luck' on her face.

Kakashi is still standing.

Before Iruka can come up with anything to say to make sure that Kakashi is still mentally in the room with them, Shikamaru sighs and shoves his hands in his pockets.

"Well, what are you going to do as your first official act as hokage?"

Kakashi tilts his head to the side, then turns slightly, looking over his shoulder. Mischief sparks as he looks slowly from the desk to Iruka and back again. His mouth begins to open beneath the mask.

Iruka realizes what he is going to say and lunges forward, heat rushing to his face. "Don't you dare."

Kakashi dodges smoothly to the side and beams at Iruka over his mask. "Maa, I have no idea what you mean, Iruka-sensei!" He smiles even more aggressively, all innocence.

Shikamaru makes an inarticulate sound of horrified disgust, which is probably the strongest reaction anyone has gotten from him in ages. Definitely far stronger than Iruka has ever gotten from him. The only semi-retired prankster in him wants to be smug about it. The much stronger side that was Shikamaru's teacher for four years wants to shrivel up and die in a hole forever. The melancholy is gone from Kakashi's eyes, replaced with laughter. Indicated only by the slight creases around his eyes that mean its real.

Before Iruka can decide if it is treason to yell at the hokage the way he wants to or not, Kakashi's whole face lights up and he practically throws himself into the hokage's chair with an enthusiasm that Iruka was not expecting. Within seconds, he has one of the chakra sealed scrolls on the desk surface unsealed and unrolled before him.

Its the ANBU summoning master scroll, to which every ANBU tattoo responds; collectively and individually, active and inactive. (Which is information that Iruka is definitely not aware of. For legal clearance reasons.)

"Kakashi, leave poor Cat alone."

Iruka hopes that leaving off any honorifics may help his case, but Kakashi just hums agreeably and keeps scanning until he finds what he is looking for. He tosses the hokage robe off immediately, draping it over the back of his seat and places his finger on one specific symbol. Iruka can't see which one from his angle.

Kakashi isn't wearing a full uniform under the hokage robe, only a tac-vest and the singlet that connects to his mask, which leaves his arms bare. And as Kakashi feeds chakra into the symbol in the scroll, his dormant ANBU tattoo flares slightly with a minuscule amount of chakra, almost undetectable against the backdrop of that same chakra circulating Kakashi's own pathways.

Kakashi makes a satisfied sound and feeds more chakra into his own symbol. "It does work!"

Iruka can feel the heat rising to his face for an entirely new reason now. "Why-You-YOU COULD HAVE STARTED A FEEDBACK LOOP! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? THAT IS SO RECKLESS!"

Shikamaru sighs again.