#i had Hiashi actually taking the hit for Neji as one of my scene rewrites for myself

[depressedhatakekakashi]

1) Happy Birthday!! 🎈🎉🎁🎂🎊 I hope you get to spend it with those closest to you doing the things you want to do!

2) I’d sell my leg for Gai to actually react to Kakashi dying and being brought back from the dead during Pein’s attack. He gets to be angry and sad and feel all the emotions.

3) Or to actually have Kakashi react and deal with Obito being on Madara’s side. After the war, when things have calmed down, he gets a chance to actually process what happened.

4) I just read your “Hinata defends Neji” headcannon. How does Hiashi react during the war when Neji tries to save Naruto and Hinata? Does he jump in front of Neji? Or does he allow the date Neji has been fighting against to happen?

Thank you!!!!

Oh gosh you just unlocked three of my top scenes 😭😭😭

Ok, So First i do have to say ‘how does Kakashi react to Obito being on Madara’s side’ is sort of dealt with in an upcoming fic!

Now, How does gai react to Kakashi’s death against Pein?

Emptiness.

It has been years since Gai has felt that deep, unforgiving emptiness in his hesrt. Years since he’s gazed upon the body, or Ashes, of someone he loved and known that this would be the last time he’d ever get to see them again.

With his Papa the final memory he has is sad, but also oddly comforting. Gai knew the sacrifice he was making but it was a sacrifice he’d made with love.

A sacrifice he’d made to protect Gai.

And most importantly, even though he knew that his father was about to Die he was gifted with a final memory of his smiling, supportive, living face.

That wasn’t not a kindness the universe had extended to him a second time.

Instead, Gai found himself standing over the unconscious -

No, Dead.

The dead body of his best friend and eternal rival.

“Kakashi…” the name fell from his lips in a chocked sob.

He’d known something was wrong, but he’d tried to convince himself that it was something else. Something more manageable.

An attack against the village that him and Kakashi would unite against and defeat.

Or the loss of another friend who he’d cry over and mourn.

He’d never allowed himself to believe that it was Kakashi, one of his most precious people, who had parishad in the fight.

The pain in his chest increased as he stared down at that lifeless, empty body. A dull ache turned into searing hot agony and before he knew it his knees buckled and he came crashing down to the earth beside Kakashi’s body.

“Sensei!” Lee called out to him, but Gai paid his student no attention as he continued to stare at Kakashi, hoping

Wishing

Praying to a diety he didn’t even believe in

That he would just move.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered as tears began streaming down his face. “I was too late.”