#genjustsu!Kakashi

[your-strangebouquetbeliever]

“Once again, take your time with this one. You’re going to want to savor it. This chapter is a love letter to anyone who has struggled to put themselves out there, and a thank you note to anyone who has made it this far. Thank you all for your unbelievable support. XOXO - VB” 

LINGER UPDATE!  I’m late but I still want to share it! Chapter 20 and 22 are my favorites. 

CHAPTERS 23-25 have been added yesterday! here are the links 

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8164447/23/Linger -Chapter 23

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8164447/24/Linger - Chapter 24

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8164447/25/Linger - Chapter 25

[semi-imaginary-place]

I was thinking about how the girls in Naruto might have progressed as ninja if they'd ever been given actual development.

Ino would make an excellent spy. She's mental ninjutsu oriented, and she's people oriented. She's the gossip queen, she knows everything about anyone. I can so easily see her as an espionage master going under deep cover to do what she does best, knowing other people's business. Super glam spy fits her vibes, she deserves it. The anime suggests an alternate path as she has a filler arc where she apprentices under Tsunade and that's as a mental health specialist. This doesn't fit her quite as well but I do like the idea of her and Sakura working together given how important their rivalry is to each other in the manga.

Sakura was introduced as having excellent potential in genjustsu, and then nothing was done with this. Sasuke became the genjutsu user and Sakura the taijutsu user and this could have been interesting since this is the opposite of their initial introduction but again nothing was done with this. Building off her taijutsu and being able to focus her chakra to a point for super powered attacks, I think Sakura deserves to wield a giant axe, she has one in several of Kishimoto's illustrations. Next would be her to develop her genjutsu potential, Sakura's strength's are her control and intelligence and I'd like to see her fully use those skills. Additionally the manga and characters themselves draw strong parallels between Sasuke and Kakashi as the geniuses of their teams. The parallel that is missed is that Sakura and Kakashi are both people without plot-breakingly powerful kekkai genkai with high intelligence, excellent chakra control, but mediocre chakra pools, and this really could have been explored more. One of the problems Naruto has is that healer is treated as a women's profession, with Sakura its rather hard to avoid however as the manga sets up a strong parallel between the sannin trio and Team 7. One option would be for Sakura not to use her medical knowledge for healing but instead like Kabuto for assassination and special operations. Of Team 7 Sakura is the most suited for ANBU, Naruto is just out of consideration completely and Sasuke has shown himself to be just as stupid and reckless as Naruto. Sakura in Anbu would also further drive the similarities between her and Kakashi.

When will someone remember that Tenten exists. I don't see her 700 epilogue retirement to run a weapon shop necessarily bad. Not everyone has to be a ninja, the problem is when it's always the women who retire from fighting. As a ninja though I think Tenten deserves more swords, like Killer B level or more swords. Tenten's strengths are in her physical abilities and weapon versatility, so she should be able to always pull out the weapon type that would work best against any opponent. I love to see her be a primarily physical fighter this would be my first pick for her, but another option would be to lean more into the sealing scroll side of thing so not just weapons but tools and traps, make Tenten a saboteur.

Hinata, oh Hinata, she deserves so much better. I can see more or less two paths for her. First would be to quit being a ninja, it could work for her. Hinata never really seemed to want to be a ninja, it was always for something else, her clan, Naruto, her friends, but not quite herself. I can very easily her leaving the shinobi life all together, leave ninjas, leave the Hyuuga clan; Hinata deserves it, to lead her own life on her own terms. Hinata had such potential to be an interesting character and its a shame the manga never got into it. She's the eldest of the Hyuuga clan leader but she's overshadowed by both her cousin and her younger sister and ends up passed over for succession, like that is juicy. True growth for the Hyuuga would have been Neji succeeding his uncle as clan head but that's another post. If she stays a ninja I would have like to see come to terms that her clan's kinda bullshit in a lot of ways and what they think of her doesn't matter, becoming a shinobi because she wants that for herself. In line with this personal growth she fighting style should deviate from Hyuuga techniques, maybe she develops her own taijutsu style. Or who knows maybe she becomes a physical therapist between the ability to see chakra and affect it, magic acupuncture. Kurenai is similarly ignored in the manga, but with her mentorship, Hinata has the potential to become essentially a magekiller, specializing in countering and taking down genjutsu users.

I bring up the option of some of the girls retiring because some of the boys should have retired. Hinata should have gotten Choji's character arc, and Choji who hates fighting should have been allowed to quit fighting and run a successful bakery cafe business. Sai deserves to put shinobi life behind him and become a full time artist. Shikamaru starts out like he's going to quit but I'm actually quite fond of his character arc. Yamato is also wasted potential as former human experiment and child soldier, like Sai he should learn how to live in peace, maybe he becomes an architect. We don't see team Taka in chapter 700 but Juugo is so gentle I want a nice civilian life for him.

(idk about Temari I mostly just want her to keep girlbossing and beating people up. Mmm I do think she's make a better Kazekage than Gaara. Gaara is another one I could see quiting being a soldier.)

[babblingeccentric]

i took a break from writing this past week and will probably not do much this week either but in the meantime i have prepared a loose naruto au for your enjoyment.

Okay so the crux of this is instead of committing the massacre Itachi just murders danzo with the help of a couple other rogue root agents, distributes copies of danzos files on root and the plans for the uchiha massacre to the masses and then vanishes to become a missing nin.

This has HUGE political knock on effects for konoha, the first of which being the uchiha coup technically succeeds. It's not really a coup because after ROOT's theft of clan children and plans to exterminate the uchiha clan become public knowledge the uchiha receive wide ranging clan support, most notably from the Hyuuga. The third hokage steps down to avoid long protracted internal conflict that would only end up opening konoha up to being preyed upon by the other villages and Fugaku becomes hokage. He has a remarkably productive but short term as hokage either being ousted by other clans whose solidarity with the uchiha only lasted so long or dying to orochimaru in the konoha crush I havent decided. His most notable accomplishments include dismantling ROOT, increasing clan power and rights in Konoha government, and granting the military police more investigative powers.

Sasuke is still outcasted due to being the only remaining son of possibly the most controversial Hokage, and the brother of the most controversial konoha missing nin. Most ninja see Itachi's murder of Danzo as justified but disagree vehemently with his choice to release Danzo's documents to anyone not a high ranking ninja or clan head. It was the biggest leak of sensitive data in the history of the hidden villages and greatly eroded the average konoha citizen's trust in their government and severely impacted Konoha's standing on the world stage opening them up both attacks and job stealing from other villages. Much of Fugaku's term was spent fighting high profile foreign ninja both as a publicity stunt and out of necessity.

Now less of the politcal and more of personal. One of the results of Uchiha power is that Kakashi is WAY less politically powerful now and is immediately removed from ANBU. Yamato takes his place in the ranks as senior ANBU captain and heavy hitter. The Uchiha also really want Obito's eye removed from Kakashi but I want him to keep it so I'm gonna say Itachi extracted some sort of freaky brain genjutsu promise from Kakashi and the Uchiha's to protect Sasuke at all costs and the power boost from the sharingan justifies Kakashi keeping it. He spends a lot of time brooding, running low stakes missions, and hanging out with Gai and as such is more well adjusted than canon when he becomes team 7s sensei.

Naruto remains largely the same, but he does end up benefiting from orphan programs that were established to support former ROOT agents integrating into regular ninja life.

As I said before Sasuke is still a weirdly hero worshipped outcast but this time with a largely absent father and mother due to their jobs which means whatever the hell his bond with Naruto is in canon remains. He also still has intensely complicated feelings towards Itachi because of both Itachi's politcal actions and the fact that Itachi still genjustsu tortured him before he left because Itachi is unable to divorce trauma from power due to uchiha bullshit.

Sakura still has a massive crush on Sasuke but this time it's more of a transferred hero worship of Itachi due to her being immersed in the civilian view of the event at home. Her opinions of Itachi also make her a little unpopular with the ninja family kids but Ino still stands by her.

Hinata is even worse here because due to the increased political power of the Hyuuga clan she is under even more pressure to be the perfect heir than in canon. She is intensely neurotic and paralysed by fear and Kurenai deserves a medal for turning her into a semifunctional person let alone ninja.

Neji has a weird combo of his canon view of the world and the Itachi event in that he sees Itachi's missing nin status as punishment for doing the right thing and that certain people are always doomed to suffer no matter how just their actions.

Itachi is on kind of a parallel journey to Kakashi where he's super fucked up and wandering the elemental nations trying to figure out who he is outside of ROOT, Konoha, and his clan. He's also having crises of whether he did the right thing and obsessing over sasuke constantly. IDK if he joins akatsuki or not. Basically he's pathetic emotionally but curb stomping everyone who actually tries to fight him.

I have no idea why Tobi/Madara helped Itachi massacre the Uchiha in canon so i don't know what he's doing about it in the AU.

[ginjaanimeloversstuff]

Blank period au headcanon-

I'm convinced during their traveling, sakura spent time at the cashion and gambling that sasuke would step in if he has as too.

If sakura got into gambling debt, But couldn't pay for it, sakura would panic and knock them out and sasuke would put them in a genjustsu. Then they make their grand escaped and vowed to never come back again.

Sasuke would scold sakura about the gambling and sakura pretended to listen and kiss his cheek apologise and say she won't do it again. But they both know that a lie. But said nothing else .

The more they travel the more sasuke how tsunda had rubbed on sakura, he breaks some habits but some he will never let anyone see.

Tsunade once told sakura in her genuine days how Orochimaru had some betting and other habits, which sakura can see Orochimaru and Kakashi's habits had rubbed on to sasuke.

They both talked about their period of training with the sanin, sakura had bad memories of it and has only told sasuke and Ino. Sasuke felt pity and was secretly lucky that his training was less painful and no broken bones.

Sasuke and sakura had a debate about sakura's habits when she was at work. Like skipping meals, sleep, overworking and the mounting load of coffee .

Sakura brings up some sasuke habits. He is over the top with cleaning, he oversleeps a lot, but at trains until morning.

They both had a drink at a inn. They are strong drinker, but they are drunk. Sasuke is a playboy and flirt and sakura is more vocal and emotional .

They both have memories of eah other drunk that they will never tell anyone.

Sakura loves teasing sasuke and seeing his reaction when sasuke tease her things get physical

Naruto is a third wheel so he always drags sai along.when he meets sasuke and sakura.

Sasuke like things spicy and sakura like them rough. Their first time happened after getting a little too tipsy. they remember it all.

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[tsignpro]

Sakura is Gifted

No doubt, Sakura is a hard worker, but I would say most characters in the Naruto universe are hard workers, such as Naruto, Sasuke, Rock Lee, etc. However, Rock Lee is the only one who got to where he is through hard work alone.

I would categorize Sakura as a hidden talent. We are constantly shown this throughout the OG series:

She has had Perfect Chakara Control since OG naruto; even Kakashi was surprised at how good she was.

She was able to answer all the Jounin-level questions without cheating.

Midway through the Chunin Exams, even Kakashi noticed that Sakura's resilience and skills drastically improved over a few days.

Within the Chunin Exam Finals, Sakura is one of the only few that was capable of escaping an A-rank Genjustsu.

Tsunade takes her on as an apprentice because she has the rare skillsets and resolve required to become a medic-nin.

Sakura is brimming with potential, but the reason she is not being not seen as a gifted Shinobi like the other characters is for a few reasons.

To begin she is on a team of Prodigies. We constantly degrade Sakura compared to her other teammates. Still, many critics intentionally leave out that all her teammates are the main characters in a Shoen series, so her teammates will outshine her abilities as the only girl on the team. (I will leave out the main characters' backstories as the subject of this post is about Sakura being a hidden talent and why it no one seems to notice.)

First, We have Naruto Uzumaki main character of the show. In the beginning, he is the perceived underdog of the series, but we soon find out that was never the case. He has the Nine-tails inside of him, one of the most powerful creatures alive. We then find out he is the child of prophecy; he's also the son of the 4th Hokage, whose mother was part of one of the most powerful clans in the series. In addition, he was given The Sage of Six Path powers, and let's not forget he's the reincarnation of the Demigod Ashura.

Next, we have Sasuke Uchiha, the deuteragonist of the series. Born into the most powerful clan in the village, blessed with the Sharingan (the ability to copy almost any move and predict where the enemy would attack), he was at the top of his class. He is a prodigy, was given a curse mark that made him more powerful, given performance-enhancing drugs, and given his brother's eyes to make him even more powerful. In addition, he was given the Sage of Six Path Rennigan and is also the reincarnation of the Demigod Indara.

We then have Yamoto and Sai as temporary fill-ins for team 7. Yamoto is a science experiment performed by Orochimaru, who imbued him with Hashirama Cells, giving him the power to use the sporadic ability of Wood Release. Meanwhile, Sai is a well-trained Ninja by Danzo Shimura and can bring his ink work to life.

Finally, we have Kakashi Hatake, Born a prodigy and the son of one of the most powerful Shinobi (said to be even more powerful than the Legendary Sannin combined). He was then given one Sharingan and ended up copying over 1000 Jitsu. When the Mongekeo Sharingan is unlocked, it can teleport anything into another dimension; finally, he gets the other Sharingan and can form a perfect Susunno seconds after he receives the eyes.

So it's no surprise that Sakura gets the short end of the stick and gets ignored. Sakura doesn't come from a powerful clan. We are not even sure if she's from a ninja clan the only detail we get of her background is the Road to Ninja Movie, where her parents said that their family is not known to have any particular talents. Her mother is a part of the mother alliance force but that is all we know. The story constantly reminds us (whether intentionally or unintentionally) that being born into a powerful clan is the key to being phenomenal. There are outliers like Minato, Jiraya, and Rock Lee, but those are exceptions, not rules. Someone like Sakura, who doesn't come from a renowned clan and is a girl in the Shinobi world, would be overlooked.

There is an implicit bias against Sakura. We see it in the way Kakashi treats her. He focuses on the boys, showing them how to do a Jitsu, and giving pointers and advice while ignoring Sakura. The most he showed her was how to climb a tree and release Genjuitsu. Still, since she learned so quickly, he didn't bother to teach her anything else and focused on the boys.

In some cases, Kakashi coddled Sakura and didn't take her seriously. The circumstances of constantly having to be on missions after Konoha's 1st Destruction forced Kakashi to prioritize Naruto after the 2nd attempt to retrieve Sasuke failed. Kakashi knew from the start that Naruto and Sasuke would be great because of who they were.

Even though she is a hidden talent, she gets overshadowed by her other peers. Sakura is brilliant but compared to Shikamaru; she seems average. However, her Chakra Control is phenomenal; it is stated that once you can master chakra control, you can theoretically perform any Jitsu, but since no one is showing her how to utilize this talent (in part 1), Sakura has to figure it out herself. Unlike the Prodigy Neji, who can use his chakra to block his opponent's chakra points. These two are exceptional Shinobi but are both from powerful clans that give them the attention they need to develop those skills.

Her skill set is not particularly flashy compared to others. Instead, the most striking thing in her arsenal is her powerful punches; it's impressive to watch but can get repetitive. Although we see the fantastic scene where she saves Konkuro's life, we don't get a lot of chances to see her shine (this is a fighting series, not Konoha'a Anatomy). She was terrific in the Kazagake Retrieval Arc and did a lot during the Pein Arc. Still, she gets relegated to the background and is a damsel in distress for Naruto or Kakashi to save until the second day of the 4th great Shinobi war (but still gets to play damsel somehow). Most of her skillset is grounded and loosely based on real-world medical procedures meant to save lives, compared to her teammates who get to perform flashy mystical Jutsu meant to harm their opponents.

Her motivation for becoming a Ninja is never really solidified; most people think it is so that Sasuke could notice her, which. I don’t blame people for that perception because the anime made it seem like that was the case, which is not the case. She is smitten with Sasuke but before she noticed Sasuke, her goal was to become a kunoichi like Ino, someone she viewed as brave, strong, and kind, something she wanted to be. She wanted to become Ino’s equal, Sasuke was the tipping point and excuse she used to declare Ino’s her rival. Sakura would rather be Ino’s rival and be an equal than be her best friend and be in her shadow. After that her motivation was to save Sasuke from the darkness, protect Naruto and Sasuke and stand together with them on the battlefield, and reunite team 7.

Sakura’s goals are pretty low stakes and small compared to everyone elses. All of her teammates on team 7 are tramatized in some way shape or form.

Finally, even though Sakura is a hidden talent, We only get a slight glimpse of her abilities compared to her peers, whose abilities are more Flashy. Of course, she had a natural talent, but since she didn't come from a prestigious clan and was a girl whose skills were based more on intelligence than physical ability, no one expected her to achieve as much as she did. Therefore, even though I criticized Kakashi a few paragraphs ago, I will commend Kakashi for telling Tsunade that Sakura has the skillset needed to become her apprentice and aknowledge that he reconized her strength after the 2 year timeskip. Despite not being from a powerful clan she still became the strongest kunoichi.

So, in conclusion, Sakura didn't achieve her success through hard work alone. Although she was hidden talent, her male counterparts overshadowed her because she was a kunoichi from an unexceptional clan, and she had the misfortune of being a girl in a Shoen Manga/Anime.

[madara-fate]

Hi there :)

Just a quick question: isn’t Sakura perfect to fight/ train someone with a sharingan? If I’m correct even a sharingan can’t copy medical jutsu? And just Taijutsu would make it also difficult to fight her? And what about her genjustsu ability?

I'm not so sure about that, the Sharingan can do a lot of broken things. For example, Sasuke used it to somehow copy Lee's speed as he was training with Kakashi, and Sarada used it to copy Sakura's movements in order to help improve her own chakra control.

Now, you can't copy chakra control, which is fundamental for medical ninjutsu, so yes I'd assume the Sharingan can't copy that, but the Sharingan can copy taijutsu assuming the body has the physical capabilities of performing the technique.

As for Sakura's genjtutsu, as far as I'm aware, she has no offensive genjutsu techniques; Her talents lie solely with identifying and dispelling genjutsu, so she would be a good match for lower level genjutsu. However, she would still be susceptible to higher level genjutsu like the one Sasuke caught her in during chapter 693.

[analviel]

Tim Drake doing the Itachi-Shisui shuriken trick

Tim and Duke re-enacting and memorizing the battle in the Valley of the End and every taijutsu fights -even some ninjutsu with help of gadgets.

Going as anime characters on halloween. Tim as Guy and Duke as Yuuhi Kurenai. Tim as Tobi, Duke as Kakashi, Steph as Rin.

You bet they'd mastered every martial art used in the anime, from the baguazhang of the Hyuuga to Lee's drunken fist and anime special attacks are a proud part of their repertoire.

Duke refers to himself as a genjustsu master before then proceeding to blind his enemies.

The two are just unrepentant dweebs and geeks. You want a nerd? They'll point you to Jason who is equally unashamed.

[yappacadaver]

im literally in love with SD canon like it’s so good. Better than the original. Sakumo invents the 1000 years of death and does it better than kakashi ever can. Tobi has a certificate from the six-paths performing arts school. Kakashi shoots water up orochimaru’s ass. Naruto doesn’t know what tanabata is and thinks it’s like christmas??? Lee ahegao. Konan crushes on Lee. Sasuke gets naked (but it’s only his genjustsu). Samehada saves Akamaru from getting pissed on by Lee.

Like I could go on and on and on it’s just a perfect vision.

[phantoms-lair]

Kakashi-sensei looked like he wanted to sigh if it wouldn't completely ruin his image, the rest of the team just looked DONE, while the kid they had just accidentally summoned looked both very confused and very willing to throw down.

(Note: This is pre Wave arc for Naruto and post Sports Festival arc for BNHA)

Thankfully the kid had no training against genjustsu and a simple sleep jutsu put him out like a light. Then had been an awkward report to the Sandaime that Naruto had tried the Kuchiyose jutsu without a contract and had managed to summon this random kid. 

An ANBU Kakashi knew was a Hyuga had looked the kid over and determined he certainly wasn’t a ninja, as his chakra coils were undeveloped even for a civilian, though there was some residue of Naruto’s chakra as a result of the summoning. It was at this point they woke the kid up for an apology.

Midoriya Izuku was not happy about being essentially kidnapped, which Kakashi supposed was fair. He was less happy that they had no idea how to get him home, which was also fair. But Kakashi thought it so typical of a teenage boy that what set him off was a girl insulting him.

“Only you, Naruto, could actually  manage to summon something and have it be some guy who couldn’t even fight.” Sakura claimed flippantly.

Naruto opened his mouth to retort, but Midoriya beat him to it. “I can fight just fine. Probably better than you.”

Sakura glared at him and pointed to her headband. “I am a proud Shinobi of the Leaf, you’re just a civilian.”

“Your headband doesn’t mean anything to me, but your arms and legs do. You have very little definition on them. Oh, you exercise, but not to build strength.”

“There’s more to a battle than brute force.” Sakura chided.

“You’re right, there’s also observation and gathering intel. Neither of which you did before coming to a conclusion.”

Sakura’s eyes darkened and she lashed out at him like she did Naruto, only to find her blow dodged.

Kakashi smiled. For all the mess this was, Midoriya had just provided him a wonderful opportunity for an object lesson. It was easy for Ninja, especially Genin, to come to the conclusion that chakra was the best indicator of ability. 

Chakra was an extremely useful and versatile tool, true, which was why anyone with the slightest hint of potential was trained in its use in a Hidden Village. But Midoriya wasn’t from a Hidden Village (he was apparently training to be a ‘Hero’, which Kakashi was guessing was like a more free-form Samurai). But in the end it was just a tool, and a clever opponent could wreak havoc without using it at all.

Hmm, in retrospect, maybe they needed to cover this with Jounin too. They had written Midoriya off as a non threat because he didn’t develop his chakra coils after all.

“Midoriya, would you care to give a demonstration?” Kakashi smiled. Midoriya looked over the three genin. “I’d rather not hurt anyone.” They didn’t take this well. Sakura looked like she was about to go off, Naruto was going off, shouting at Midoriya that he wasn’t weak, and even Sasuke’s eyes narrowed.

Kakashi smiled more. “I was thinking of Naruto’s clones.” “Fine by me!” Naruto immediately formed the Ram Seal and a second Naruto screamed and charged towards Midoriya.

Midoriya reacted with a surprised gut punch that caused the clone to vanish in a puff of smoke. It was hard to tell who was more surprised by this, Naruto or Midoriya. “You might try some tactics next time.” Kakashi advised.

Naruto nodded and created another clone. This one didn’t charge blindly,  and as a result Midoriya had a much harder time with it. But after he popped it the next one went down quicker. And then the one after that. Kakashi resisted the urge to whistle. Naruto prided himself on being unpredictable, but this kid was obviously learning patterns and adapting to them. He couldn’t really gauge the strength behind the blows - it didn’t take much to disrupt a clone- and the fighting style itself was one that Kakahi mentally referred to as ‘Advanced Brawler’. It was the type of movements seen when someone wasn’t trained, but fought enough to be able to be somewhat effective.

Unfortunately for their guest he had hit the limit of Naruto’s pride. He angrily slammed his hands into the Ram Seal and more than a dozen Narutos roared as they charged in.

There was a moment of pure panic in MIdoriya’s eyes before he leaped back to given himself more room. His body began crackling with a green energy that had Kakashi’s headband off his eye and his Sharingan active.

“TEXAS SMASH” Midoriya yelled, punching the air in front of him. A shockwave ran through it, dispersing all the clones at one.

Naruto’s jaw dropped. “How..How did…?”

“Was that wind chakra?” Sakura asked, breathlessly.

“No,” Kakashi said, covering his eye back up. The Sharingan was not as good at seeing chakra coils as the Byakugan, but it was enough for this. “Whatever it was, it used no chakra whatsoever.”

“How is that possible?” Sasuke asked, eyes narrowed.

“I don’t know,” Kakashi answered. “Yet.”

~

“A report already?” Sarutobi looked up. “It hasn’t even been twenty minutes?”

“We have severely underestimated the danger level of our guest.” Kakashi said bluntly. “In addition to being highly adaptable, he’s capable of throwing a punch that can generate a shockwave capable of disrupting a wide field of shadow clones. All without a drop of chakra.”

Sarutobi’s eyes narrowed and his posture straightened, shedding the grandfatherly mein for the one once known as the God of Shinobi. “And what do you suggest we do.”

“Use him.” Kakashi said plainly. “He’s powerful, but not hostile towards us.” Annoyed, but not hostile. “Until Jiraya gets here with the Toads, make use of his abilities. Room and board should be a given, as we did kidnap him and we don’t want to foster resentment. But I’m thinking of an exchange of use in training for actually learning a form. It could be one of the simple ones we teach civilians for self defense, or even the Academy Standard, but it will be more than he currently has. In return, he serves as a training dummy and humility checker.”

Sarutobi took a puff of his pipe. “Humility checker?”

Kakashi shrugged. “Every fresh graduate thinks getting to keep the headband means they’re a fully capable ninja until they get smacked by reality - usually in the form of an enemy ninja and the dead body of one or more comrades. Midoriya will let me drive that home without them being in life threatening danger. The fact that he doesn’t have the capacity for ninjitsu should knock them off their high horses a bit.”

“Very well.” But the Hokage fixed him with a glare. “But f you think one one second he’s a threat to them-”

“Midoriya Izuku will cease to exist.” Kakashi said easily. As if he would do anything else.

His orders given the shadow clone dispersed itself.

[shinobisakura]

A Flowers and Shuriken.

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Friday 21st August :

Soul mark AU

 Where you bare a soul mark that corresponds with your soulmate. You can only see your own soul mark, and it flashes when you’re going to meet them soon. 

Chapter 1 sets the scene. Chapter 2 is the real interaction. Might actual make a few more chapters to this, rework it and then post on AO3

 Chapter 1

Early mornings were not good for Sakura. Ever. Early mornings usually meant skipping breakfast, meeting up with Team 7, an all-out brawl with Team 7, Kakashi-sensei finally showing up several hours after he said to meet up and followed up with some incident that usually dragged her on shift at the Hospital.

Usually.

Toady was not a usual day. I was an incredibly unusual day.

“I’m sorry what?” Sakura spluttered staring at her master.

Sakura along with Yamato, Shikamaru and Hinata were all stood in the Hokage’s office for a last minute mission. None of them knew what it was about, and so far all they’d gotten out of the Hokage was that it was an urgent and immediate mission. So collect your shinobi packs and go. This was the type of mission urgency that only ANBU were sent on- with the exception of the Kazekage retrieval mission a few months ago.

“You four are going to the capital for a very important mission. Because its in the capital, I need the best I can get, and right now that’s you lot.”

“Its not Tora again is it? That mission is such a drag.”

Tora. That damned cat! If Tsunade was sending her on another Tora mission she’d just blow her top. Thirty times as a genin was enough thank you very much.

Tsunade however didn’t seem affected by the comment, and remained as stern as she had began the mission briefing.

“No it is not Tora.”

Silence. Clearly despite the urgency of the mission, Lady-Tsunade was trying to think of the best way to explain the mission without exposing anything critical. Hinata looked around for a moment and then chose to speak up.

“Ts-Tsunade-sama, you said you need the best, but, wouldn’t Na-naruto-kun or Saskue-san or Shino be more suited?”

“No this isn’t suited for them. Naruto and Saskue are likely to burn down the capital in a brawl, Shino is too quiet for this mission, and honestly from what I’ve heard, the Daimyo hates bugs. That would go down just as well as sending you with both of the team 7 idiots. I don’t want Kakashi reading porn in the palace and I really, really don’t want to hear that Genma slept with another Daimyo’s daughter or wife. I just about negotiated for his life in the last case.”

That… was sadly very true. Genma and Raidou had been sent to guard Shizune whilst her fellow medic-nin healed Madam Shijimi. Apparently Genma had caught the eye of the Madam and Daimyo’s daughter, who instantly wanted to add a shinobi shaped notch in her bedpost. That had gone so well for him that it had taken the elders, Lady Tsunade and an offer of engagement for his daughter from the Water Daimyo (curtesy of Naruto begging Kiri’s jinchuriki to help arrange it) for the Fire Daimyo to forget he ever wanted Genma’s head on a pike.

Either way, from Tsunade’s explanation she wasn’t necessarily after the best shinobi but rather the most capable of them. At least the most discreet. Shikamaru seemed to see it that way too.

“So not exactly the best, just the least likely to cause trouble. Damn what a drag.”

“I need you four to meet up with the Daimyo’s guard and pass on this scroll to the guard head. You will return accompanied by said head guard, with the exception of you Yamato, who will be taking over the head guards position until otherwise relieved.”

“Why us? This is going to be such a pain.” Shikamaru compained for the third time that morning.

“Because the four of you are the most qualified for this job. The three of you are all chunin or higher.” Tsunade rubbed the bridge of her nose. “In addition to this, Sakura you have your own mission.”

“Me?”

“Yes. It’s this particular mission that is why you will accompany this team. Once there you will be team leader, as your mission takes over.”

“What? But surely the Head-guard would take over being the more experienced jonin?”

“No. This is your personal mission scroll Sakura. It is only for your eyes and you are not to open it until you reach the guard. Once you’ve read it, you will understand why it is that the team will be under your command. Is that Understood?”

“Understood.” Sakura nodded and then hesitated, her sudden departure from the village might cause more problems than Tsunade would expect.. “Tsunade-hime, will you inform Team-7?”

“I’ll make sure Naruto and Saskue know and don’t burn down the village looking for you.” Tsunade nodded. “Go home, collect your essential and then depart from the sothern gates once you’re all there.”

The team stood to attention and then with that the team departed.

 Within only twenty minutes, the newly formed Captial-Team had geared up, departed the village and were well on their way to the heart of the Fire Country.

“Who is the Daimyo’s head guard anyway?” Shikamaru asked.

“I thought you’d already know?” Yamato blinked back in surprise.

“I know he’s Konoha shinobi, but I didn’t bother to know exactly who. The Daimyo goes through them that quickly.”

That was certainly true. When Sakura had been in the academy it was a well known fact that the Daimyo was sending back the Head-guard every few months. None meeting his personal standard, and some not wanting to deal with the Daimyo’s family any longer.

“It’s Shisui Uchiha. Shisui-san has been the Daimyo’s head-guard the last three years.”

Uchiha? Sakura thought. Saskue had mentioned he had a cousin on a long term mission with the Daimyo, but she hadn’t realised it was Itachi’s Shisui.

“Jeeze, that long? What a drag. What’d he do, beg the Hokage to give him relief or something?”

“I don’t know.” Yamato shrugged.

“It’s- it’s probably because Shisui is the most qualified genjustsu shinobi, aside from Itachi-san. There might be a new mission he’s needed for.”

Sakura snorts at that.

“That’s what Sasuke will have you think. I have it from good authority that Shisui is better than Itachi.”

“And who’s that?” Shikarmau scoffed.

“Itachi himself.” She snorted.

That was true. Itachi had once told her over dango that he and his cousin often spared, but Shisui was always one step ahead. Apparently Itachi said that even Shisui’s sharingan was stronger than his, which was a feat in itself as usually it was only main branch Uchiha who’s sharringan had that much potential.

Hinata giggled at that and Shikamaru groans.

“I do believe that is a good authority.” Hinata quipped.

The team lulled into a silence for a couple more miles before Shikamaru spoke up again.

“So Ino said your soulmark’s been flashing.”

Ah Sakura thought. Yes that was true. The last couple of days the soulmark on the inner of her elbow had began to flash bright every so often. She’d only noticed it the morning two days past, having taken of her guards to realise the mark was flashing. She couldn’t tell if she was excited, happy or terrified at the prospect of meeting her soulmate. The mark itself already telling her she’d have feeling for whoever it was.

“Yeah. So?”

“Well doesn’t that usually mean that your about to meet your soulmate?”

“I don’t know Shikamaru, did that happen when you and Temari met?”

“Ugh. You and Ino are going to kill me with your questions. But if you must know yes. What about you Hinata? Did your soulmark flash when you met Naruto?”

“N-no. I believe that the Soulmark only flashes if you and your soulmate are going to have a romantic meeting.”

“But it has flashed for you and Naruto?” Sakura raised her eyebrows.

“Y-yes. Naruto’s soulmark flashed just before he asked me to dinner in Suna.”

That was surprising, seeing as Hinata had been making moon-eyes at Naruto since pre-academy. But then again, Naruto had had a crush on her until two years ago when Sakura explained soul marks to him. Apparently no one had bothered to teach Naruto in the orphanage and since Saskue had met his own soulmate- and it was Uzumaki to everyone’s amusement, Naruto had been confused as to why Saskue was interested in talking to this brash girl since he hadn’t even bothered looking at Sakura.

It had been funny to see Naruto realise that the mark on his hand which no one else had seemed to ever notice, was in fact his own soul mark- A Lion. Then barely a week after it had began flashing and he was Hinata using her new Gentle Step style. Since then the two had began dating and Hinata had blossomed in confidence whilst Naruto developed a new self-awareness (at least where Hinata was concerned). Sakura had thought the reason Naruto’s mark only flashed then was because he hadn’t known that it was his soulmark, but apparently Hinata knew otherwise.

 “What about you Captain Yamato? Did your soulmark flash when you met your soulmate?” Sakura looked at her team captain. Said Captain turned bright red and nearly missed ducking a branch.

“What makes you think I have a soulmark?”

“The fact you just turned bright red?” Sakura pointed out. “So who is it?”

“None of your business!”

“Oh come on. Hayate and Yugao are soulmates. Naruto and Hinata, Shika and Temari. We deserve to know!”

“Asuma and Kurenai. Hanabi and that Konohamaru kid.” Shikimaru added with a nod.

“Even Kakashi has a soulmate.” Sakura shot in too, and Shikamaru glanced over to her in surprise.

“Really? Who? Not Gai right?”

Sakura snorted but before she could reply Yamato yelled back at them.

“OF COURSE KAKASHI SEMPAI’S SOULMATE ISN’T  GAI!”

“…Is it you.” Shikamaru asked a sly grin on his face before he dodged a kunai thrown at his face.

“I guess so. Wouldn’t have seen that coming.” Sakura grinned at the other two before they continued on, joking as they went.

 It didn’t take them too long, and they arrived at the capital in less than a day, and after an hour of paperwork and approval, they found themselves in a cheap hotel on the outskirts of the city.

“Tch. The Daimyo certainly knows how to treat his shinobi.” Shikamaru groaned.

“I thought you’d be pleased, you get to sleep in a bed before we go speak to the Daimyo and his guard.” Sakura quipped back.

The group unpacked their gear slowly making use of their down time before the following day.

 “So. What’s your soulmark?” Shikamaru asked raising his brows.

“Shikamaru-san! You can’t asked that.”

“Why not? Might help us narrow it down. There’s a good chance she’ll beet whoever it is in the city, seeing as it only recently started to flash.”

That was true. Soulmarks always corresponded with Soulmates in one form or the other. It just took a little longer for some people to work out.

“Good point. Only fair you tell me yours first.”

“Meh, mine is a fan. You know, cause Temari uses them or something.”

Hinata giggled at that before adding her own.

“M-mine is a kitsune-festival mask.”

Sakura laughed.

“Oh, those are definitely big hints. Although if you didn’t know Naruto it might take a little longer.” Sakura shook her head. Those were easy to recognise.

“So what is yours.” Shikimaru asked, breaking Sakura’s thoughts.

“It’s… It’s weird. It’s like some strange curved Shuriken or something.”

“A shuriken?”

“Kind of? It’s just weird. I thought maybe I’d run into a shinobi who used a custom shuriken or something? Maybe a pinwheel? But I don’t know anyone outside of wind country who are related to pinwheels.”

“Weird.” Shikamaru agreed. “Usually a Soulmark is connected to something unique about the person not their weapons.”

“You literally just said your soulmark for Temari is a fan.”

“Because her jutsu is unique and connected to fans. There have only been three shinobi in Suna history to use fans to slice air.”

“Fair enough.” Sakura slumped down. Her mark would be difficult to work out.

“Look lets sleep on it. Maybe in the morning you’ll know more.” Hinata added and they nodded in agreement. Sleep sounded wonderous. 

Chapter 2

“YOU WANT TO WHAT?!” 

Apparently the Hokage had not sent word to the Daimyo about the change in his guard. Said guard was stood, face entirely blank, beside the screaming noble. So far the scroll handed to him had only upset the Daimyo into something of a tantrum. In fact, Naruto’s own tantrums when told he couldn’t have ramen seemed like an elders council speech compared to the display before the team.

“We are here to exchange Captain Yamato here, for your current head guard Shisui Uchiha. Whilst we understand the lack of notice -something urgent has come up that only Shisui can help deal with. Yamato here is more than qualified to guard yourself and your family Lord Daimyo. In fact he is the only Shinobi aside from the First Hokage to have the Mokuton. Lady Tsunade selected him personally to ensure your safety.”

If there was one thing Sakura had learned from her master, it was the art of kissing up to nobles to get the outcome you want. Well that and how to hold ones liqueur. But only one of those skills was useful right now, and if anything Sakura would kill for a drink to help deal with this.

“Why?” 

“Because your safety is paramount to the peace of the Land of Fire, my lord.”

“No. Why do you need Uchiha?”

“I’m afraid that’s above our clearance to know. As the Hokage’s apprentice she thought that my presence might help reassure you the urgency of this mission as well as our knowledge of how important you are to the Land.”

A little lie didn’t hurt either. 

“Yes, yes. I did find it odd for Tsunade to send two clan heirs and her own apprentice.” His face seemed stunned for a moment before he masked it with a sagely imitation of wisdom.

Clearly, only now had the Daimyo realised who Sakura was, probably having thought she was simply a pretty face added to placate him. Technically that was probably also part of Tsunade’s planning, but Sakura didn’t need to let him know that.

After a little more back and forth, Shikamaru adding that technically Shisui was due to leave from the guard anyway, the Daimyo finally agreed. With that they regrettably left Yamato in place of Shisui and the group left. Not having shared a word with each other until they were long out of the capital.

The group stopped after an hour of running and opted to set up camp.

“Holy shit.” Shikmaru finally burst. 

“Y-you sounded very convincing S-sakura-chan.” 

Sakura, to her credit, simply shrugged as the other collapsed in giggles.

“I had to train with Homura and Koharu in the art of politics. The Daimyo is nothing compared to those old bats and the clan elders.” 

Shisui laughed at that. It was warm and reminded Sakura a bit of Naruto.

“Right, before anything else. My name is Shikamaru Nara, this is Hinata Hyuuga, and the political negociator over there is the Hokage’s apprentice.”

“The name’s Sakura.” She grinned. “Very sorry for the unexpected legal kidnapping.”

“I honestly didn’t expect it. So tell me, why have you retrieved me?” 

Sakura opened her mouth before closed it. She didn’t actually know, she hadn’t even read her scroll yet, so right now it could be anything. Technically the brief had been to swap Yamato for Shisui and have him accompany them in whatever the new mission was.

“Gimmie a second.” She finally said, pulling out her own mission scroll. It was written formally like any other mission scroll, but there was an obscurity about it that made Sakura scowl.

Sakura, apprentice of Hokage Tsunade. Your mission is to heal the damage done to Shisui Uchiha’s eyes through use of the Sharingan with the assistance of Hinata Hyuuga and Shikimaru Nara. Here is the knowledge compiled on the degenerative abilities of the Sharingan, and what little knowledge we have on preventing it. 

Please report back to the village once you are confident in having gathered all the necessary things.

Dispose of this once read 

Signed. 

Homura Mitokado

Koharu Utatane

Hokage Tsunade Senju. 

That- That was impossible. Tsunade herself had explained to Fugaku that the sharingan’s damage was irreversible. 

“Are they- THEY CAN’T BE SERIOUS!” Sakura yelled, ripping up the scroll.

“What? What?!” Shikamaru, for once in his life, looked worried. 

“Those- those idiots are expecting a miracle.”

“What?”

“Tell me Uchiha-san, how long have you been going blind?”

The following exchange went from Shisui initially denying it to finally Sakura giving him a lecture that he was acting like Saskue did when he was being stupid about a critical injury on a mission. Shikamaru and Hinata decided to make themselves scarce during this exchange, which Sakura thought was probably from learnt experience with her and her squad. After a bit more back and forth Shisui pouted and sat down as ordered, allowed Sakura to cast a diagnostic jutsu after explaining she was a medic-nin. 

“So you know Saskue?”

“I’m on his dumbass original genin squad. Sakura Haruano. I’m pretty sure Itachi probably mentioned me at some point.”

“You’re Sakura?” 

“What were you expecting. Some burly woodcutter type?”

“I was expecting someone a bit... Younger?”

“ARE YOU SAYING I’M OLD!”

“No! No! I just keep imagining Saskue and his team as 12 year old genin. It’s hard to picture him as anything but.”

“Well him and Naruto technically still are genin. Saskue ended up injured the past two chunin exams. Different incidents of course. And Naruto went on a round trip with the Pervert himself.” 

“Pervert... You mean Jiraiya?” Shisui seemed stunned at the name.

“Yes. Could you activate you Shaingan for me?” 

He obliged. 

“Okay. Now seeing as its just us. Can you show me your other form of sharingan.” 

“You know about the Mangekyo.

“Itachi mentioned it on one of his physicals. Said it was draining.”

Shisui nodded, and then activated it. 

Sakura froze completely and almost immediately Shisui deactivated it.

“I'm sorry! You asked me to activate it!”

“You- you - you-” Sakura couldn’t get the words out. 

How. How the hell was her soulmark in his eyes. 

Of course she knew the answer. He was her soulmate.

“I ams sorry. I know that it’s a bit intimidating, but you didn’t seem-”

“Shut up a second!” Sakura finally cut him off. “What’s your soulmark?”

“What?! What does that have to- It’s a flower. Actually, hang on!”

He pulls out a pressed flower from his jacket. It was a purple bell shaped flower, and instantly Sakura recognised it.

“That’s Aconite.” Sakura blinked at the flower.

“Yeah?”

“It’s poisonous.”

What kind of dumbass walked around with a press of a posioness flower in his jacket. Sakura herself didn’t do that. That was beyond stupid and dangerous. Sure she used it all the time, but she was a medic nin she could handle and accidental poisoning. Unless of course Shisui was a poison expert and was using it in some sort of concoction. 

“It is?”

No. Apparently he was a dumbass like Naruto.

“Yeah. It is. Why do you carry it around in your jacket? Are you trying to kill yourself?”

“Huh? I just carry it in case I run into my soulmate, then I could pull it out and present it to her.”

Oh, never mind kill himself, he wanted to accidentally kill his soul mate too! If she hadn’t known better, he’d have killed her.

“I use it in my antidotes and- Well its my favourite flower.”

“Your favourite flower is poisonous?”

Sakura snorted. “Ino- my best friend- compared me to an Aconite bud when we become friends. It stuck with me I guess.”

Shisui’s face seems to fill with realisation.

“So... This flower has a special connection to you?”

“Yes, and clearly the curved shuriken is connected to you, seeing as its in your eyes.”

“Wait! Are you trying to say-?”Apparently she had to spell it out for him.

 “That that weird dumbass shuriken soul mark I’ve been branded with is actually your mangekyo? Yeah.” 

“Huh.”

Sakura snorted once more. 

“I guess I’ve got a real reason to be motivated to find your cure now.”

[grecoisms]

title: to sing of light in a singular block

pairing: Hatake Kakashi / Haruno Sakura

rating: T

summary:  "The first time Hatake Kakashi proposes to Haruno Sakura, she has just sucker punched someone in the face." for @itslulu42 because she always comments, likes and supports. oh, and her writing is Phenomenal, please read and like and follow her; here. 

To be thy lips is a sweet thing and small. Death,thee i call rich beyond wishing if this thou catch, else missing. (though love be a day and life be nothing,it shall not stop kissing).

***

The first time Hatake Kakashi proposes to Haruno Sakura, they - meaning him posing as the Hokage, Hyuuga Neji as his main bodyguard, Uzumaki Naruto as his other bodyguard, Shiranui Genma as a pain in the ass, and Sakura as his spokesperson slash assistant slash the group's medic - are standing in a storm of preposterous size, soaken to the bone.

Sakura has just sucker punched Kumo's Dean in the face for numerous things, of which the least offensive was denying them an audience. They can all but watch, because, Kakashi reasons, this is the wisest action at the present moment.

"I have no respect among these men." Sakura turns around to face them and snarls. The storm holds nothing to her sight. Naruto, on his left, whimpers. "Here I am, a jounin, a medic, the apprentice of the Godaime herself, assistant to the present leader of Konoha and yet if you ask anyone around here, I am nothing but your woman?"

It was Naruto who wrote the letter to the Dean a fortnight ago in which he failed to specify Sakura's title and role leading to the current misunderstanding. The moment they stepped into the city, the Dean simply laughed in Sakura's face when she opened her mouth and then he promptly asked Kakashi how much he paid for her.

Now here they are, dimplomacy in shambles, Naruto close to soiling himself and Genma and Neji are fidgeting, no doubt trying to calculate the odds and methods of protecting Kakashi from Sakura's fists. Probability must be low and the methods scarce, because his bodyguards (yes, the ones sworn to give their blood the very moment he is in the smallest danger) are slowly but surely slouching away. Oh well. Kakashi suspects the moment is now or never.

"Sakura" he says, very carefully. "I can clarify your position to any of these men before you decide to kill them with your bare hands."

Sakura's temper is legendary, and one of the few people who is able to calm her, is, indeed, Kakashi. Yet her face is still scarlet when she shots her answer back.

"And what is my actual position? When it comes to you?"

Kakashi shrugs his shoulder very elegantly, attempting to sound as nonchalant as possible.

"I can pose as your husband, for instance."

"What?" gapes Genma.

"What?" whispers Neji.

"Say again?" shouts Naruto.

"You what?" screeches Sakura. "Now you want to marry me for the sake of maintaining healthy diplomatic ties?

It is no shock that as she stomps her feet, the Dean's office crumbles next to them and shakes. People are running out from the building and he thinks, this is not as romantic as I have read.

"Well" coughs Neji as Sakura starts marching towards them, face like lightning. "It was good to know you all."

"I am both terrified and aroused right now" Genma declares and Kakashi turns towards him. Genma has the audicity to grin. "Hatake, you lucky bastard."

"Yes." Kakashi says, dreamily, as the ground shatters into oblivion around them.

***

The second time Hatake Kakashi proposes to Haruno Sakura, his spleen is outside his body and she is shouting again. Both of them are swimming in his blood.

"Marry me" he says with some saliva and blood on his lips. Sakura's face is chalkwhite, the hands that try to reapply his organs are shaking. She does not cry and she does not respond.

He repeats himself.

"He is going into shock, girl, let's hybernate and we can deal with him later." This is Anko's voice, coming from above him, like a vengeful goddess.

Two pair of arms clutch at his shoulder and he wonders how memorable will the proposal get if he vomits all over himself.

"Sasuke, I swear to all the gods if you don't let him go, I will kick your ass into a genjustsu spiral."

The hands do not release him.

"I said no!" it is a howl now, Sakura's voice. The anger kicks on her chakra-flow and he feels like he is being sewn from the inside and out. But at least the foreign coldness of strange hands release him, and he is back in her arms, steady and warm.

"Oh, Sakura, this is really cruel" Kakashi slurs. "Please, let's marry. Marry me. Right no-"

"Shush" she says and bends closer to his face. He smiles at the proximity even though consciousness flees from him, even though he suspects they might forget about it after this battle. He coughs some blood upon this thought. Right into her face. But Sakura must really love him, because she doesn't even flinch; just caresses his face with her other hand, not fully aware of the action.

" 'Kura" he whispers. "I mean it. Take me to your parents."

"You are an idiot" she says, full of emotion. Her voice is wavering, audible for just him. The curtain of her hair separates them from the others, from the war. She is his shield now; she has been his wall of safety for a longer time he can remember. "I am trying to keep you alive."

"Just say yes" he breathes. "I am alive. Please, please - "

"Are you finished yet?" this is Sasuke's voice, bored beyond measure.

"Yes." breathes, smiles, laughs Sakura. "Yes, yes, yes."

***

The third time Hatake Kakashi proposes to Haruno Sakura, they have been married for fifteen years. Kakashi has loved her since she was twenty.

"Is this what I think it is?" their oldest, Hanako, asks.

She is loud and disciplined like her mother, but her face is Kakashi's face; long silver hair and wistful bends of wide mouth and eyes tilting downwards, warm-dark. Top of the class, already an elite chunin, she is planning to join ANBU, despite her father's wishes.

When she finally unwraps her graduation present, her mouth goes 'oh'. It is a ticket to a caravan heading to Suna, a place she always wanted to visit. Her eyes tear up, passionate, and she embraces them fiercely, then runs towards her godmother - Ino - to tell the news.

Friends and people all around them mingle, in the garden Ino and her family has maintained for generations. Just behind Kakashi, there is a sweet-smelling mango tree.

"Kazue found your old scarf this morning" his wife tells him, eyes closed, breathing in the sunlight. "Wanted to put on right away, but I convinced her to wear something more elengant today."

"Um" he says, and Sakura's eyes open, alarmed. "I caught her wrestling with Neji's daughter just ten minutes ago. In the puddle I left Pakkun in."

She just groans, and tilts her head; and it is the moment when Kakashi is surprised to find that Sakura's pink hair glints in this light, for she has some silver in her hair. As she grimaces, the laugh lines dance across her face, and suddenly, he is shaken beyond measure. Time has slipped between them, and for better or worse, they chose and stood together.

"What?" she asks as he catches him staring in awe. "Do I have mango juice in my hair again?"

Before she can catch her braid into her hands, Kakashi catches them.

"Marry me?" he says and Sakura is already laughing her omnipotent laugh, all freckles and some crow's feet jumping around her eyes which he adores, and leans to catch his mouth in hers.

"Ugh" it is just a moment later, but they look up, dazed. Hanako's hands are on her hips and she is glaring. "Are you so adamant on embarassing me?"

Sakura and Kakashi lock their eyes and hands together.

"Yes" they chant. "Yes, yes."

[anbu-legacy]

My god! I almost feel bad for Raidou, having to make up for his rookie's lack of civil manners 😂. This also shows how well Raidou has come to understand Kakashi's that he's now capable of seeing 'underneath the underneath'. And the other was when Genma snapped at Kakashi's for drinking less water. I could so very well relate to this since I usually run behind my sister with a glass of water. And then Kakashi's almost mutinous look. It's almost endearing to see the stubborn 'i hate this team's K

2. Kakashi to the now mellowed down Kakashi. And now I am eagerly waiting for the next thread. I am already excited to see the results of Raidou's genjustsu classes and all the action packed scenes that will follow. Love you all, Anamika

We’re DELIGHTED you enjoyed the thread! Poor Raidou has had to learn to herd cats — big cats with dangerous claws and teeth — in a hurry, and you know the cats are getting annoying when even Genma loses his patience. 

[kaminoko-x]

- That evening at the ryokan was their last good night for almost a week. DANG IT I CALLED IT AND I DIDN’T WANT IT TO BE SO

OOOH HUMIDITY AND HEAT EW

AUTHORS YOU DO KNOW TRUE SUFFERING

AS A PERSON WHO LIVES ON AND LOVES THE WEATHER OF THE WEST COAST OF CANADA, WHO HAS VISITED AND COULDN’T HANDLE TAIWAN IN MAY, WHICH IS APPARENTLY NOT EVEN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER, I PITY AND EMPATHIZE WITH TEAM 6 BECAUSE THEIR SITUATION IS PROBABLY FIFTY TIMES WORSE WHAT I WENT THRU

I’M DYING BUG SEX OH MY GOD

KURENAI AND GENJUTSU IS ALWAYS A FASCINATING BUT ALSO VERY ATTRACTIVE COMBINATION, BC KURENAI IS A QUEEN AND COMPETENCY IS HOT

I THOUGHT GENMA MIGHT BE THE MOM BUT NO IT’S RAIDOU AND MY SKIN IS CLEAR, MY CROPS ARE WATERED - 

OOOOOOMMFFFF ALL THESE AMAZING GENJUTSU CHANGES FOR KURENAI LIKE SHE DOESN’T EVEN POOF JUST SNAPS A FAN OPEN AND WHILE YOU WERE DISTRACTED FOR JUST A SECOND HER KIMONO’S DIFFERENT NOW, LIKE A MAGICIAN, SHE’S SO COOL (WCW EXCEPT ALL THE TIME THANKS)

GENDOU IS THAT

IS THAT LIKE A SHIP NAME @anbu-legacy

IS IT, I DEMAND THE TRUTH

WE’VE BEEN USING GENRAI BUT YOU JUST SLIPPED THAT RIGHT IN THERE LIKE WOW

KURENAI BACK AT IT BEING SUPER COMPETENT INTEL AGENT, EASILY SPINNING HISTORIES AND PERSONALITIES INTO PLACE, I LOVE EVERYTHING

“SULLEN WASN’T HARD TO FAKE” AHAHAHAHHAHAAAA I’M DYING RYOUMA IS SO PRECIOUS AND ALSO HILARIOUS

KURENAI IS REALLY DONE AND ALSO REALLY WANTS THAT BATH AND SHE JUST DOESN’T CARE #REQUIRED-TO-ADULT-MOOD

OOOOH RYOUMA’S QUICK LOOK IS ACTUALLY NOT PARTICULARLY EMPHASIZED ON ATTRACTIVENESS. FOR ONCE.

I MEAN IT’S STILL LIKE, LOWKEY THERE, BC GEN AND KURENAI ARE MOLTEN ON A SCALE OF HOW HOT R U? BUT THEN IT’S ALSO JUST ANALYTICAL, LIKE THOSE DETAILS ON KURENAI - “a generosity to hip and breast that combat kunoichi could seldom afford” NICE WORLDBUILDING AND VERY FASCINATING

- But she stretched, and kept stretching, long and lean, until she slid back into Kakashi's shape and leaned against the door.

THESE HENGE GENJUSTSU TRANSITION THINGS ARE KILLING ME THEY’RE SO SO SO COOL

AUTHORS YOU’RE SO COOL