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theshadowrealmitself · 3 years

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Thinking about Naruto not feeling that confident about his writing ability and only feeling comfortable writing to Iruka when it’s safe to do so because he’s already used to how he writes being his teacher and all

And everyone Naruto made friends with in the village is all sad and missing him, but trying to be understanding on the fact that he’s probably really busy with his training

Then they see Iruka’s apartment covered in pictures Naruto sent him, and souvenirs from different areas, and there’s stacks of letters in a drawer (also thinking about Naruto learning how to knit and sending Iruka imperfect lovingly handmade gifts)

I just want less stuff on Iruka feeling like he’s being left behind and more stuff on Iruka being a favorite brother figure 😭

#he has no idea no one else isn’t getting letters because Naruto mentions everyone in his letter #he sends Iruka letters like ‘I saw Kakashi today!’ and then Iruka will pull out a picture of a scarecrow from the envelope #Iruka also gets pictures of:#frogs #cool plants #different restaurants he wants them to try together #and photos of Naruto’s visits to Gaara that are blurry because Naruto can’t contain how excited and happy he is visiting him #the blurry photos are Iruka’s favorite #since Naruto’s also only sending the letters to Iruka he’s embarrassingly honest in them #talking about how he admires how cool and strong gai’s team is #how much he misses shikamaru and the others #he’ll even point out bugs he saw that remind him of shino #he’ll deny to the bitter end that he ever thought anything affectionate towards bugs because they remind him of one of his friends #Naruto is so embarrassed when he finds out that eventually Iruka starts telling people about the letters #(Iruka never mentions how much the letters make him cry when Naruto casually brings up how people are much nicer to him outside Konoha)#(he also doesn’t mention how much it aches when Naruto writes to him about how he’s dealing with his grief with people he knows being dead)#(how Naruto’s processing everything by himself because Jiraiya’s always off somewhere)#(he thinks the worst part is how childlike Naruto’s letters are)#(they constantly remind him that Naruto’s so young to be going through this)#(and how they’re sending children off to fight wars and process death on their own when they’re just so young)#(he cried that hardest though during the first letter when Naruto talks about Haku #(and it hits him that naruto really is just a lonely child who wants people to be nice to him and he wasted so much time blaming him)#(for the ninetails attack)#naruto uzumaki #iruka umino #naruto

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