#anbu gai

[gai-is-love-kakagai-is-life]

I am currently plotting an ANBU!Gai fic and it's so fun but so damn hard.

It could've been short and simple, but noooo it had to turn into a foundation of a multi-chapter monster with so much research and character explorations that I'm gonna lose it.

However... it's very fun and I love my plot bunny baby. It might not get written, but the plotting has been an absolute blast so far!

[ludwigplayingthetrombone]

I'd gotten a few requests for anbu era kakashi and gai, and need this specific scene for another comic, so here we go. Kakashi's about 17/18 Gai 18/19 here and not romantically involved/together yet

tw: blood, injury, suicidal thoughts kks has a breakdown p much

[gai snoring][knocking][pounding on door] Gai: Coming! Genma, I swear to-

Gai: Kakashi

[clatter]

Gai: 'Kashi, the blood in your mouth- KKs: NO!! No hospital, it's not my blood! Please, gai- Just go. Don't look at me

Kks: Why-?

Kks: Do you get off to seeing me this pathetic or are you just a fucking idiot! I do everything I can to get you to stay the fuck away from me! So why else-? I don't understand. Why do you even like me?

Kks: I don't know where else to go. I don't wanna end up like my dad, Gai. I'm so scared. What else am i good for Gai: Kakashi. Kks: I just wanna die. I just wanna die. [WAILING]

[There's lots I like about you, rival. How you love romance novels. Your distaste for sweets and fried things, so you always give them to me. Your stubborn competitiveness no matter how ridiculous the challenge is.]

[How fiercely protective you are for your friends and comrades even if they aren't grateful for it.]

[gai snoring]

[gai snoring] Gai: Sushi eating contest later? [kks flinches] Kks: Ok. Gai: Yes! see ya

Kks: See you.

[Because you're kakashi. Not Hound, The legendary copy nin, Prodigy, Genius,

[Or white Fang's son. I've always just seen kakashi]

[push] Hurry it up, I'm hungry. Gai: Trying to make me bite off my tongue, so I cant compete, hah?? Kks: Not at all what I was doing but ok Gai: Well- Let me tell- [And I think kakashi's pretty great]

[sinnbaddie]

Thinking about anbu Kakashi and his struggle with the amount of love he has for Gai. So I made a comic about Kakashi being presented with a rare opportunity

Kakashi: … Gai…

Gai: mhm?

Kakashi: *stumbles off his back*

(At the same time) Gai: Kakashi! | Kakashi: … *incoherent noises*

Gai: what did you say?

Kakashi: I said… I said I… I love you.

Gai: what?

Kakashi: you mean a lot to me and-and well I like being by your side. I like your laugh and your face. You give good hand massages, you’re really funny and you’re thoughtful… you’ve always been there, I don’t want you to go away. I like you Gai and I think-I think I want to kiss you

[steblynka-draws]

A gift from someone 🥺

[notsorryiml8]

May is Mental Health Awareness Month - Part 2

Inspired by the kids' books "How to Hug a Porcupine" and How to Hug a Pufferfish." Someone had once said Kakashi reminds them of a hedgehog and he really is hard to hug/give affection to because of his trauma.

[ezolenta]

Stilness/Catastrophe

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

[akemi-snow]

KakaIru + Those Four Guys From Naruto

I'll assume you've seen the original versions with the canon couples. (I'd link it but have no idea what the OG really is). Now it's the gae version.

[reineydraws]

cleaning out my procreate files sketchdump 1/3! ima post the next one next week :)

these are nart doodles i sent mostly to @kageillusionz 🥰 we had a conversation about nathan pyle comics and naruto, which is what the first two and a half are about, and then some sketches of a kkir botw au that lives in my mind. and a random boxer!kashi doodle cuz i had nowhere else to put it 😅

[rokudaimeplease]

"You lack it." "Lack what?" "Darkness."

[skywritingrambles]

Send me asks about my Kakashi character study!

I plan on writing a detailed synopsis of what kind of stuff to expect (not plot details/spoilers) soon but at the moment I don't really have the energy.

The basic idea is that pretty much every ANBU and a lot of Jonin struggle with psychosis due to their long, grueling missions that wear them down physically and emotionally. This follows Kakashi specifically, as he learns slowly to deal with this and let people in and heal trauma. He gets closer with the people who already cared about him, like Gai, Tenzo when he meet him, Kurenai, and Asuma, and gets closer with different people that he meets like Genma, Raidou, and Iruka. (I think it will be kakairu but I haven't decided how centric it will be)

Be warned, there is in depth descriptions of psychosis in many of the chapters. As someone who experiences hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia myself I hope that I can portray the episodes accurately.

What I most want to do is explore how Kakashi learns to interact with others, care for others, and let others care for him, all while learning to deal with these horrible episodes in a time and place where it was seen as a taboo topic, where you shouldn't even approach someone struggling like this, let alone try to help them.

If you're interested in some of this, I'd reccomend reading the oneshot I wrote that gave me the idea, Episodes. I go more in depth about how it's treated by the people around him.

Anyway, I'd love to hear what you're curious about! I'm really passionate about telling this story and I want to talk about it as well as write it.

[malifiquemakes]

Bad dog.

A continuation of this AU where Obito brings Kakashi into the Akatsuki.

[gai-is-love-kakagai-is-life]

Alright, so imma just spill the beans on the ANBU Gai plot because i cannot contain how horrified I am at the monster I created. I made this blog to talk about it because I know I have difficulties actually writing... So I WILL talk about it!

(EDIT: I just... caved and made this post because I got so excited about my breakthrough. I dont know whether or not i should delete it or drop the whole thing but, it was exciting)

Literally, it started with wanting more angsty Gai, then ANBU Gai and Kakashi being the one to reach put to Gai and they work things out. So... how... and why... did it turn from Gai joining ANBU for Kakashi to getting involved in getting caught between Hiruzen and Danzo's nonsense which involes DESTABILIZING A WHOLE ASS COUNTRY??

I have mentioned the Land of Woods before and... yeah I was cooking it's destabilization and Gai's role in it because I placed so much importance on giving Gai an external conflict outside of his struggles in ANBU and Kakashi. I just HAD to!

Over the course of weeks I researched Naruto's history, the characters, the wars, the countries, the divisions, the magic system and even bought the light novels to understand everyone and everything better... well, I was very selective about who but that's neither here or there... Bottom line is I did the most in trying to create a scenario that would make sense for ANBU Gai that would affect and challenge him. Knowing that a lot of ANBU are either in the village spying on people, protecting the Hokage or infiltrating other countries for assassinations I was like, "That's an idea! Maybe he'll patrol around the village borders with his team and go capture/assassinate targets when not in the village!" It was at this point I practically forgot about Kakashi and Gai's inner struggles to focus on what the fuck kind of missions he would do and what conflict would he be involved in.

Losts of research later I realize that I have a practically blank slate for Gai to play in that he has ties to... The Land of Woods. The victims of the infamous scene where Gai sees the darkness in Kakashi that he lacked himself. It was perfect. It had questions that needed to be answered, like what is it's role in Naruto? Why were they beefing with the Land of Fire/Konoha? What happened to them and why? The answers are: Not much, no idea, and it's essentially lawless land now. There is no leadership and apparently it was a haven for criminals (possibly including Obito and Sasuke at some point). Something happened to it between the period of Kakashi and Itachi slaughtering the Prañja Group (the victims), and Shippuden times and that blank space was mine to color in.

What I did was come up with a reason why it collapsed into the state it did by the time of Shippuden and how Gai was involved. It took a week or so of trying to figure out how destabilizing another country even works (doesnt mean i researched hard. I looked up the methods and imagined from there), but I had come up with Gai and his team assassinating people. But why? And would he stand for it? I wasnt trying to break Gai, just... test how bendy he'll let his morals get in ANBU--

(I posted this early because my phone fell on my face and posted it... )

I wasnt trying to break Gai and I know that as loyal as he is to Konoha and moreso to the people he loves, he wouldn't do something so... devastating. So then I got ROOT involved and now Gai's team is stumbling upon ROOT doing the dastardly deeds of dismantling a dying government. It took until last night for the how to solidify.

... Imma just post pictures of this next part. It came in the middle of me trying to go back and flesh out the Kakagai so I didnt lose it again, but the Land of Woods conflict still got me by the throat.

If you read this far... thank you. If you hate this? Completely understandable. I might delete this post but i had to get this out. I hope that it was at least interesting

[ludwigplayingthetrombone]

Last one for the week, but I also have a comic bundle PDF up on my kofi shop. This one is both the Anbu breakdown comic and the Gai recovery comic! I combined these two bc they were so intertwined. Enjoy and thanks so much for the support even outside of monetary support i love you guys so much ;w;

Available for the Base price of $5

[ikemenomegas]

good-ending!kakashi and itachi need to have a little former traumatized geniuses cooking club where they get comfortable with making little "mistakes" and putting imperfect dishes on the table and improvising without needing to explain themselves like it's life or death

[linggluu]

"Hey Kakashi! How's it going! Come have some dango with us!"

[frankencanon]

Kakashi: It's very important that ANBU maintain anonymity and keep the fact that they're even in ANBU at all top secret—luckily, I am fantastic at being discrete...

Also Kakashi: *literally walks around town in his ANBU uniform with the tattoo on full display and the ANBU mask nowhere in sight*

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