#Naruto what if

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What if Naruto had 3 brothers?

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Naruto What Ifs #1:

What if Kakashi helped Itachi before the Uchiha Massacre happened?

Welcome to my new series in which I write about my favorite Naruto theories. I most likely have undiagnosed ADHD so I can’t promise consistency but these theories will be DAMN GOOD, so buckle in, send me your theories, and let’s get into it.

Potential TW: mentions of characters’ canonical s*icides

Where in the timeline are we?

Post Shisui’s death, pre-Uchiha massacre. Itachi is still a subordinate of Kakashi, and later still gets promoted to ANBU captain. I will explain why in this post.

How does this play out?

We see the potential for a friendship between Kakashi and Itachi when Kakashi takes Itachi under his wing in the ANBU and trains him. Kakashi shows a level of concern for Itachi (questioning Lord Third whether or not he’s too young for the ANBU), and Itachi shows a level of admiration for Kakashi as he learns under him.

After Shisui’s death, Itachi withdraws into himself and Kakashi notices. He’s very perceptive, and Itachi is usually very reticent, so when he’s contemplating Shisui’s dying wish to protect the village and the Uchiha name with his newly bequeathed eyes and asks Kakashi about his own entrusted Sharingan (given by Obito), Kakashi instantly sees through Itachi’s question and linked it to Shisui’s death instantly.

Kakashi is intelligent, and so of course he would put it together. He asks Itachi if everything is okay. When Itachi closes off and just lies and says “I’m fine”, that’s where this theory diverges from canon.

I think Kakashi left it at that because he was still very much wallowing in his own trauma, and couldn’t devote much energy to it. Understandable, no blame intended.

BUT let’s say for the sake of this theory that Kakashi understood Itachi, after losing his best friend, was most certainly not fine, and decided to take it upon himself to help him because he too had lost multiple best friends, so he understood Itachi completely. Not to mention, Shisui’s official cause of death was suicide, which is the exact way Sakumo died. Kakashi at this point in the timeline is the only person who could have understood Itachi. It’s my headcanon that had they communicated with each other more and grown closer, they would have had a very strong and unbreakable friendship. They have uncanny similarities in my opinion.

So, Kakashi follows Itachi around/snoops around for information on him.

(I also like to think that he would have known Shisui pretty well for a few years at least, they were both ANBU when Shisui died, so I believe Kakashi knew his character enough to know there was something strange about his suicide. This would have also pushed him to look into the issue more.)

He knows at this point that the Uchiha are under suspicion because of his surveillance shifts. It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to say that he could put two and two together and understand that Itachi and Shisui are at the epicenter of the conflict between the Leaf and the Uchiha. His uncertainty about Itachi’s initiation into the ANBU when he was just 11 years old is enough for me to come to the conclusion that Kakashi knew Itachi’s premature promotion was partly political.

To further this, Kakashi himself was promoted so quickly and graduated early partly because they needed more fighters for the war. Yes, he was talented, but the second Hokage created the academy to keep children out of war, yet pre-mature graduation was a loophole the Leaf used when shinobi were needed. This was the case for Itachi as well. He was promoted prematurely in a time of peace, which in my head, should have set off alarm bells in Kakashi’s head.

So, with all of that background knowledge in Kakashi’s mind, when Itachi is promoted to ANBU captain at age thirteen, not long after Shisui’s death, ding ding ding, something is very wrong.

There’s evidence that he had the feeling something was wrong. He warned Itachi not to get involved with the Leaf’s politics. He knew to some degree that Itachi was being positioned for a singular purpose.

So, what if he’d have looked into it more of his own volition? Like he did when he discovered Tenzo, the Wood Style user?

Hiruzen has him walk into the Uchiha compound, he gets mega-bad vibes, feels the need to do something about it. How does he find out?

Well, for one, if he and Itachi had opened up more to each other and formed a working kinship, Itachi could have confided in him. If this happened, I have no doubt Kakashi would have helped him. Especially since he was already aware of Danzo’s tendency to scheme and manipulate (as he’d tried to do to turn Kakashi against Hiruzen and assasinate him after Minato’s death, then also have Kakashi killed by Tenzo). He would have instantly been like “oh? Danzo says killing the clan is the only way to peace? Nope, not on my watch.” And he could have helped Itachi find a peaceful way to avoid the coup then and there. After all of his loss, Kakashi always found a better way and ignored authority when he found it necessary. Also, the second Itachi would have told Kakashi that Shisui died by Danzo’s orders, Kakashi would have no doubt been pissed off and sought justice. Absolutely. Damn that would be so cool to see in a what if episode.

If Itachi hadn’t confided in him, maybe Kakashi, after confessing worry to the Hokage about Itachi, would have learned the information through Hiruzen. Hiruzen granted Shisui autonomy to try and solve the issue, and he gave Kakashi classified information about Wood Style and Orochimaru’s experiments (establishing monumental trust in Kakashi) so I have no doubt he would have told Kakashi in hopes that he could have helped Itachi. At that point, after Kakashi’s persuasion, he could have stripped Danzo of his positions of power before he could order Itachi’s assassination mission.

Kakashi could have been present in negotiation meetings with Fugaku, Lord Third, and Itachi, and using his connection to Obito, could have pleaded the case of honoring his dying wish to protect the village. Maybe he could have even offered his Sharingan back as a way of showing Fugaku respect for the Uchiha.

This has been on my mind for a while. I’m even tempted to write a fic on this. If you made it this far, thank you, I hope you enjoyed. I’ll be back with more theories <3

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Kakashi Hatake - What if Infinite Tsukuyomi 10 year awakening

Time for me to start makin’ Naruto art!

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Naruto what if where the Ōtsutsuki clan is in the plans from the start. A lot of it is just oh shit it ends poorly for humanity & Earth. Some of it though is slight tweaks like Isshiki placing a karma marking on Obito and Obito becoming a vessel for Isshiki. Not sure on all the details yet, but my partner & I were talking about it on a car ride. Isshiki leads/manipulates the Akatsuki idk.

Zetsu having Kaguya’s will would go on to flee & side with Orochimaru, not wanting to be eaten by Isshiki surely recognizing his chakra signature. Orochimaru & by proxy Kabuto would go on to know about the Ōtsutsuki much sooner.

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be free!!

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(By trope-specific i mean for example all the slash fics hosting websites, or the nsfw-only ones, etc)

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a kakashi from this afternoon,,

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an artist

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Sasuke returned to look at the statue for a long time-

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while you were out here reading hentai my man here was grinding missions

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What if Naruto, Anko & Kabuto were Good guy Orochimaru's Genin team?

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Job promotion (now what?)

Comic 1: Interrogation

Caught him lurking in the background (he was being suspicious in their defense)

Comic 2: Everywhere you go.

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welp, didn't manage to get everything out before season 10 started, but i gotta post it one way or another so here we go! heard there was a fandom swap game going on, wanted to do a couple promts of my own :D

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obito: you said i'd see rin again madara: no, i said rinnegan obito:

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did the thing as a comic! context, minato chooses the village, but obito finds himself unable to kill naruto no matter how many different methods he tries

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Yoo I Naruto Izumaki And by the way, I'm Future Hokage🍥🍣🥢

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