#I love hanahaki tropes so much and I think they're very underused for these two

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Given that curse based jutsu are a whole subfield of fuuinjutsu in naruto already I'm like genuinely surprised that nobody has used this as the perfect opportunity to do hanahaki fic for KKIR more often. Especially with Iruka getting the curse, since we all make him the seals master anyway. Like, maybe he went on a rare job because nobody could figure out what a thing was and he ends up contracting it himself, or maybe it was an accident [IE: accidentally triggered it while trying to disarm it] or he could've been hit with it during a fight etc etc and I point to Iruka specifically bc we all know he represses his feelings worse than Kakashi does and it'd be very fun to have him Suffer From This and leave Kakashi fretting over him constantly

Iruka takes it all in stride ala "this is a curse and my whole thing is getting rid of them I'm sure I'll figure out a solution Eventually" and then he puts it on the bottom of his list of things to do bc surely it's not that important whoops it got worse haha when did that happen