#Genin Iruka

[anniemaar]

For Chierei ♥ and the Four Seasons of KakaIru Gift Exchange.

[teatitty]

Iruka casually dropping that his ma was ANBU and his friends are like "oh that's cool - WAIT WHAT???" and this is how Kakashi finds out that Vulture, the commanding officer who struck fear into every new recruit and once used a barrier to crush someone into paste against a wall, is Iruka's mother. The same mother he used to describe as "not big on affection and kind of a tough love sort but had a soft spot for sushi." The same mother he said "burst into tears one time because she was high on pain meds and was overcome with Feelings"

And now he just has to live with that knowledge. Forever. At least they finally have an explanation for Iruka's infamous temper

[land-of-the-eddies23]

[bsidez]

it's a small petty thing but still kind of drives me bananas-- iruka was 10 when the nine tails attacked. in vol 1 Naruto is 12 and Iruka is 21-22. they have a 10 year age difference.

[hozukitofu]

kkir fic idea 💡 might write it or someone else can adopt this and run with it

i work at an australian magistrate court as a paralegal and kkir (my ninja dads) remind me of the police prosecution vs defence lawyer negotiation throwdowns. kakashi is literally all the weird and eccentric lawyer i've ever met (you need to be weird to be sane) and iruka just acts like all the other very nice but firm prosecutors at court to me

imagine hotshot perpetually late but so so brilliant defence barrister kakashi (mr hatake) negotiating a better outcome for his clients. he's always laid back because he knows he's that good, dresses in the same suit every time, gets away with wearing a facemask in court and literally only ever fixes his terrible posture at the bar table and whilst in court. he tried to ask the magistrate to let him salute the coat of arms (instead of bowing like everyone else) when he first got transferred down to the lowly magistrates' court but got promptly shot down (the compromise was the mask). he was working as a top queen's counsel for the private city law firm then got mysteriously transferred to their regional branch in a 'mentoring role' (a bunch of graduated law students interning actually quit their postgrad studies because he was really harsh and had really arbitrary rules tbh). so my man's in a bad mood ALL THE TIME (literally unprovoked) and has no personal assigned paralegals because no one can stand him. his assigned clerk has the patience of a saint and the tolerance for no bullshit (it's rin) he makes outrageous plea offers with prosecution and it's the best/worst time down at court. he also cross examines like the person at the mic personally wronged him, which isn't great if it is a protected person in a family violence case, or any witness at all, but very eye opening to see

down at court you have the sweetest man ever sergeant umino ('please call me iruka') in the dog box(what we call the prosecution office). he has a law degree (admittedly from a nowhere regional university but he is admitted to practice as a legal practitioner) and way too overqualified for the police force, but he wants to make a difference before going to teach full time or practising law full time. he's nice about everything (printers, legal advice, referrals, talking to anyone) except for paperwork which he is anal about. he wields stamps like weapons and every time an informant is shown to have filled out their paperwork wrong he calls them up directly (how does he even have their direct line?) to chew them out, but super nicely. adjournments, unmentionable dates, requests - don't need to provide reasons, iruka will approve. he not-so-secretly made copies of his police badge so paralegals can print documents off the police printers. he always gets snacks and coffees for court registrars and referral officers. he has bags of lollies for little kids. iruka teaches community service and justice studies for the vocational college nearby. he also has the occasional stint as a university lecturer only for first year law kiddies, and teaches also senior high school legal studies electives. beyond stamps and paperwork, he is the law down to the letter, sometimes to the spirit. if the facts look bad, especially if it is family violence or egregious failure to appear/warrants then he would be a hardass to lawyers. my man however is not opposed to diversion especially if the accused are kids.

so like fanon, kakashi brings outrageous plea offers to the dog box whenever iruka is in -- 'can you withdraw [most serious charge]' 'you can't prove that she was fearing for her life' 'he's never had a criminal record so can't you give him a slap on the wrist and send him a bond?' iruka shuts that shit down every time. he has a case of bleeding heart-itis so occasionally they CAN collaborate to help truly at risk offenders to reorient their lives. kakashi complains that iruka agreeing without a yelling match feels worthless but deep down he doesn't mind when iruka isn't in full hate mode AT him. kakashi thought that iruka would be all snobbish because police prosecutors who hold law degrees tend to act like they're better than everyone else but iruka is overall down-to-earth, hi-i'm-here-to-help. can't push him around though, but he's all about the learning experience so he encourages postgrad law kids and volunteers to have a go at him. for the real thing, defence lawyers groan good-naturedly when they hear he's in the dog box. kakashi seems to be the only who delights in riling him up, but in the rare instance that everyone agrees BUT the magistrate says otherwise and hands down a harsher sentence, he would be handing up paperwork for a contest hearing SO FAST kakashi wouldn't have time to consult with the client. there's a deal between him and kakashi for a stack of signs form 11As can be dealt out when absolutely needed. despite going at each other's throats on the clock, sooo many people have seen them getting lunch together or just talking about their mutual student naruto.

in this universe naruto did not complete high school, went through to vocational studies, took a pathway to uni instead. somehow he, sakura and sasuke end up at the same law firm (naruto is a bit older than the other two but acts precisely like a teenage eshay ALL THE TIME). why does he want to practise criminal law? because it looks cool and he wants to make the bar. his mum is a judge and his dad is a speaker of the senate/cabinet member so... it runs in the family. sasuke is following alongside the traditional asian career choice: doctor, lawyer or engineer. my man hates maths with a passion so lawyer it is. i know it's weird that sakura would be doing a law degree knowing she could be doing a med degree but hear me out: i met and know and am friends with girls who studied double degree law/biomed, finish their law degree, said fuck it I'll be a lawyer what's so bad, otherwise i can come back, and now making big massive bucks. though i imagine sakura will specialise in personal injury cases as well as mental health tribunals, then might go back to university for her med degree. she will be that cousin who lived 6 lives already - was a doctor and a lawyer and your mother would not stop comparing you to her. she needs a bit of instinct training but her academics are spotless. sasuke is ruthless but can't connect with clients. naruto maybe brash and loud but he plays on people's heartstrings like a conductor when presenting a bail app or plea. everything is the way it is so that iruka can move naruto's admission to become a lawyer when he applies for admission at the supreme court

anyways iruka will retire from police work to teach full time, maybe sign on to work for a community legal centre to appear for bail apps for remanded offenders picked up in the cells. he accidentally yelled at kakashi one day to go out and kakashi thought it was too funny to not go along with. now they raise 8 dogs, 3 full grown adults and all of iruka's students together. they fight about everything, but might slip into really formal legalese (passover aggressive fuck-you) when they're being annoying or really pissed off. naruto sometimes has to adjudicate these fights and he can't stop being scared for his LIFE.

kakashi: your honour, my learned colleague here had erred in his submission that i had, conclusively, not promised such things

iruka immediately pulling out receipts: your honour, may i submit evidence contradicting otherwise

(they were fighting about whose turn it is to do the dishes. there were only oral agreements in place but once you're both lawyers you just get used to writing everything down and signing to bring up in an argument later)

(iruka also cross examines kakashi for funsies, but they mainly shelf this for when arguments are bad and they need to pull out the big guns)

anyways if anyone ends up writing this please tag me

[johnnyinmysilverhand]

my naruto insert is sakura's older brother who is dating, and you guessed it, mr umino himself

[lexidafree]

Title: Stray Hound 🐺

Fandom: Naruto

Just a lil ‘found family’ Au - you know the kind, where a young bleeding heart genin Iruka takes in Naruto, only to suddenly also be adopting a maladjusted ANBU into his home as well. They live together as a happy, weird little family. ❤️ ☀️

[oh-no-its-bird]

Special edition Christmas fic where genin aged team 7 decide hatch their newest plot to see Kakashi's face: using mistletoe

Because if they trap him under it with someone, he'll surely have to take his mask off to give them a kiss! ...Right?

(Sasuke thinks this is fucking stupid)

The entire thing is just a fucking slapstick comedy as Kakashi goes "what's the funniest way I can go along with this." And decides he will in fact lower his mask and give a kiss to everyone the kids corner him with. But only when they look away / blink / their view is obstructed

The kids are chasing him around with a string on a stick w mistletoe tied to the end of it, and every time they miss seeing the kiss (and his face) hey scream even louder

Reactions range from "???!?????!?!??????" (Iruka) to straight up passing out (Gai) to laughing hysterically with a bright red face (Kurenai) to just sort of freezing up like a deer in headlights (Asuma)

Kakashi, having way too much fun, makes a shadow clone to pull the Sukea thing again. And the kids get "Sukea" on board, thinking he can take a photo the second Kakashi pulls his mask down for a smooch. Kakashi has WAY too much fun, essentially role-playing with himself and swooning dramatically. Then, at the end, Sukea goes, "Oh no the camera's memory card is gone, Kakashi must have stolen it :((" and the kids all scream in agony

They try to get him to describe Kakashi's face and Sukea gets all coy and goes "umm... its kind of... indescribable?"

(They get another person to try to snap a photo of him but they turn out to be a freezer so they don't take the picture. When the kids harass them ab it they just giggle a little maniacally ab his face)

This does escalate to doing this shit w enemy nin btw. Funniest option is obviously Tobi but I'm also raising u a really freaked the fuck out Itachi looking like an angry, surprised cat after Kakashi gives him a peck on the cheek (Sasuke is gonna fucking KILL HIMSELF)

Obito gets the full makeout session bc its funniest.

He shows up looking for a dramatic fight but like halfway through his villain speech, team 7 dangles the mistletoe over him, and he's so thrown off guard he just kinda "???? excuse me I'm kind of in the middle of—"

Kakashi, who is a) in too deep to stop the bit now, and b) recognizes a good way to throw off an enemy, fucking launches himself at him, pushes Tobi's mask up just enough to kiss, and starts to make out w him

His back is turned to the kids and they're all scrambling to try to catch a single glimpse, but he keeps his back to them as they scream and run around (thus prolonging the kiss)

Kakashi is totally checked out of the actual kiss, this is all fun and games to him. Obito is having a fucking religious experience wrapped in a manic episode flavored internal breakdown topped off with a very loud high pitched kettle noise that may or may not be confined to his brain

This lasts for like a solid minute before Kakashi releases him and readjust his mask, pats him on the shoulder and goes "sorry about that teehee"

Obito just kinda 🧍‍♀️ and they stare at eachother for another solid minute as team 7 screams and cries and throws up in the bg

Kakashi, seeing the opportunity to leave and avoid what was for sure going to be a potentially devistating fight: "cool. So, anyways. Bye lmao." And runs for it w his students

Obito is left tanding still as a statue in the middle of the clearing. After like 20 seconds alone he starts hyperventilating.

Merry Christmas everybody 👍

[hellcifrogs]

Students' Students AU - Teams 8 & 10

<- Part 6

Uniform vests for everyone!

Since Shino became chunin before Kiba and Hinata, he starts taking missions with other chunin and other higher rank shinobi, quickly gaining experience and - being the little genius I know he is - moving up rank.

Ino also moves up ranks quite fast, her personality and contact with Shikamaru's strategic brain since childhood made it easy for her to start leading her own units on missions. She also catches the interest of some pretty important people.

Shikamaru decides he can't move up to jounin, when as only chunin he's already overworked with not only his own missions and jobs, but his father and Asuma frequently drag him to the hokage office to help both Tsunade (giving advice and second opinions) and Ebisu (training Konohamaru).

Hinata did get the clan seal, but she had the support of friends and Neji so she got over the shock after some time. She also realized she can socialize more with her own clan now and truly enjoys their company and friendship - she also made herself a new goal of being stronger to protect Hanabi.

The three chunin become a popular team unit for mainly tracking and espionage. Both Hinata and Shikamaru are mostly content with this rank, but Kiba still works hard to manage jounin level, he wants to become a teacher of his own genin team.

He sometimes even accompanies Chouji on his training with Iruka, teacher training (the kids love Akamaru). Chouji is also chunin now, but has left the battlefield for good, as far as his choices go.

Team 7 shippuden -> (will add link later)

[teatitty]

Furthering my pseudo brothers Iruka and Asuma agenda and adding a bit of seals and trap master Iruka flavour: all those bomb tags Shikamaru used on Hidan in the forest were made by Iruka and the trap he devised was based on similar ones he'd seen Iruka use before too just with some Nara Shadow Seasoning. Much like Kakashi and Tsunade, Iruka knew Shikamaru was planning something and privately sought him out to ask what was going on and then handed over all the bomb tags with a bitter smile and told him to get good use out of them, because Iruka made them with revenge in mind

[land-of-the-eddies23]

Everybody (except for Sasuke) in attendance!

[bsidez]

idr where I read it, but I think about it all the time. but i remember reading that naruto replaced his headband while he was away for the two years BUT it was only because the fabric had become so worn and that was the only part of it he replaced, he

edit: i can’t believe i literally didn’t even finish my fucking thought. ANYWAY my point was that it still symbolically meant so much to naruto (i mean was the first time anyone had given him anything of value?) that he went to extreme lengths to keep it

also he talks about it in the chapter he shows back up in the village but i’m on mobile and can’t add it

[irukasito]

as they get older, kakashi and iruka unintentionally start marriage rumors bc they very casually say and do things that only old married couples say and do.

for example: while iruka scolds a group of pre-genin in his office for improperly using kunai during training, ye olde rokudaime hatake kakashi is just lounging in the background reading and going "mind your blood pressure, sensei" in a disapproving voice when iruka gets too riled up, like it's the millionth time he's said it in his life (and maybe it is and maybe iruka does calm down because he knows from experience that kakashi will nag him about his health if he doesn't).

and as the kids walk away one of them goes "they sound like my grandparents." and another says "they've gotta be married." and the rest agree. the rumor spreads until naruto barges in on one of their dinners together and asks why he wasn't told about or invited to the wedding.

("it was a very intimate ceremony," kakashi says, not looking up from his food. "we didn't invite anyone."

naruto's face crumbles as he looks forlornly at iruka, who sighs and pinches kakashi on the arm for joking like that. "you weren't invited because there was no ceremony! naruto, we're not married."

"you're living together out of wedlock?!" he asks, scandalized.

"he doesn't live with me! we're not even together!"

"then why is he always hanging around you, huh? and why are you having a candlelit dinner at 6pm? the sun is still out!" naruto counters.

iruka goes quiet. there really was no reason for the candles to be there. kakashi had lit them and iruka hadn't questioned it.

"well, he's got us there," kakashi admits. "maybe we are married.")

[irukaamerite]

This is how I imagine a Kid sukea - Kid Iruka encounter The doodles are super bad because I'm tired, but I guess the saying, "Do it tired anyway," is something I'm going to apply today

Somebody is playing pranks on everyone, and no one knows who it is. There is a list of suspects that varies between kids, pre-genin, and genin, the thing is that all suspects are super sneaky and their lips are sealed. Team 7 takes the mission of discovering who is, so everyone tries to infiltrate those groups and with a disguise, Minato thinks is a great exercise of infiltration with no lethal results.

So, Sukea finds Iruka and the other kids watching how one Anbu gets pranked. They are Witnesses, but Sukea doesn't have any evidence that they were the ones who pranked the Anbu; they just witnessed it.

So, Iruka kinda of kidnapped Sukea to have fun. They have fun and end as friends. Kakashi never learned until years later that the master mind of all those pranks IS Iruka, he just never witnessed one because: Iruka - "Why would I show that to one civilian kid? Imagine if something went wrong!! look at this scar! is because one of my pranks backfired! And I don't want you to get involved in something like that" Kakashi infiltration tactic failed because Iruka never shared with anyone that he was the master mind behind all the pranks. When Sukea appeared, Iruka focused on having "normal fun" with the socially awkward kid.

Kakashi never connected the dots that no pranks succeeded when he was playing with Iruka because he was too distracted having fun and semi-learning to be less socially awkward.

[borealwrites]

I see your (general) “Kakashi expects children to be half as smart as he was at that age” AU and raise you a “Kakashi thinks children are way dumber than they actually are” AU. His only in-person experiences with pre genin are himself, a year at the academy, and Naruto.

So he’s convinced that Iruka is some kind of god for wrangling 17 half-feral children (and Naruto) into real human beings who can read and write and use chopsticks and deadly weapons. Yes, clan children probably learn a bit before, but still.

Kakashi: can’t believe you taught them almost everything they know

Iruka: I didn’t??

Kakashi: I watched you turn 18 hellions into mostly functional members of society

Iruka: most of my kids were well behaved

Kakashi: they absolutely were not, I once saw baby Shino bite Chouji and Hinata took out Gai’s kneecaps because he stood still long enough for her to catch him

[soulstuffjunkie]

Nothing like watching your sweet sensei take apart Vaati without batting an eye.

I saw that reference image and IMMEDIATELY knew what I had to do with it. I’ve been working on this for an AGE and I know the og image says Super Mario Land but I figured it was a good time to shout out my favourite GBA game of all time, 🦆Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap🦆. I first played it multiple times to completion on the PSP and then later on a GBA emulator on my pc after our PSP died on us. I still love it to bits to this day 💖

Also you can see how I figured I liked the image more when it was flipped and then had to flip Kakashi’s hair and scar to be accurate. Also drew myself a little Kakashi face ✨as a treat✨ before I covered it with the mask

[ID: Naruto fanart of genin Team 7 plus Kakashi crowding around Iruka, who's playing on a Game Boy with an eyebrow raised. The kids look intense and impressed, Kakashi's leaning down to watch with an arm around Sakura, and Iruka's hair is down. The background is taken from Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. Image two zooms in further on everyone's faces.

Image three is the reference, a photo of four kids standing around their mother on a Gameboy, captioned "A mom helping her kids beat a hard level in Super Mario Land, 1990s." The last three images are progress photos of the art. End ID] (many many thanks to @princess-of-purple-prose for the description, I’ll add these to what I have up and to the rest of my art too, going forward!)