#naruto team seven

[jaguarys]

Sakura is absolutely the "only normal by comparison" trope. And she doesn't even have any trauma to start with. That's just how 12 year old girls are

[im-still-watching-anime]

kakashi: kids if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all

naruto: don’t say that!! that means sasuke will never talk again :(

sasuke: what’s that supposed to mean idiot— oh actually i see what you mean

[sapphicsparkles]

A piece I did awhile back for @hanamizine 🌸

[suika-suigetsu]

Team Taka with Kakashi??? Everyone I love in one pic??? Please???

I wish he could have been a father to them too 🥹

Thanks for the idea!

[jvnart]

Happy birthday Kakashi 🐶

[watermelonsloth]

Naruto: Sasuke is my friend! And if I love him, it’s as a brother!

Itachi: Well, Sasuke is my brother and if he looked at me the way you look at him, I’d call the police.

[dattebabunn]

Team 7, ready.

[notsorryiml8]

He only had them for 6-7 months??

Looking at a timeline and watching the Land of Waves and Chuunin exams again (how far we've made it so far with the niece and nephew) and just realized how short of a timeframe Part I really is, that in Part I, Kakashi only had Team 7 for 6-7 months before it all went downhill/Sasuke left!!! I don't know why that blows my mind. SIX -SEVEN MONTHS! By the end of Part I to Shippuden and time spent with sensei/mentors, it's like:

Iruka/The Academy : 5 yrs

Kakashi : 6-7 months (months,people, months)

Jiraiya/Tsunade/Orochimaru : 2 - 2.5 years

When looking at it like this, I really think people/fans expected WAY too much out of Kakashi. He started with the traumatized-youth-of-the-year team and had only MONTHS to work with them and from the ground up. Subtract the time he was gone on missions, in the hospital and/or comatose (looking at you Itachi) and that gets knocked down to maybe 4-5 months. He spent less time with them than any other sensei and did a remarkable job for what he was given. I think all of this to say, give the man some grace. That was wild.

When all was said and done, what he did for this little rag-tag team of traumatized feral orphans + Sakura was more than amazing. SIX MONTHS, people, six months. Well, maybe seven, but still...let that sink in. I think people fail to acknowledge this when they call him a "bad sensei-" can't believe people are still doing that years later(!). Let any of the other jonin sensei do what he did in six months and with the team he was given - any of y'all try working with traumatized prepubescents and see how long it takes for them to work together?? I do every.single.day. They're all about survival and living in that trauma mind. Trust? What's that? Teamwork? Nope, gotta look out for me. Then you go and put them on a team with Captain Trauma, himself. Smart move Lord 3rd, smart move. Yeah, yeah, yeah I get it, only other Sharingan, control 9-tails, son of your sensei, blah blah blah. Poor Sakura, btw. Poor little thing didn't know what she had gotten herself into.

I dunno, I just don't think people ever see it from this perspective - that he literally only had them for months. Guy's team - already had a year together. Asuma's team - InoShikaCho were predestined wombmates. Kurenai's team - they were well-adjusted (Shino's the most laid-back person you'd ever find; just give Kiba a puppy; and who can ever get mad at Hinata, well, other than her family).

Traversing other corners of the interwebs and didn't realize just how much Kakashi hate dislike scorn "non-like" there is out there even now. It's wild. All this to say, just showing Kakashi-sensei some love. ❤️ and respect.

[narusasuart]

Peak team 7 dynamics

Based on this 😁

[insiderzx]

Hatake Kakashi ~

[jaguarys]

Sobbing (thinking about Sakura Haruno)

Unlike many of the other characters in the series that she's surrounded by, she's just so... normal? Like yeah sure she's silly and weird in the ways that teenage girls are, but she doesn't have any horrible backstory or anything that she's pulling from. She's just a girl who wants to be something and has the stubbornness and strength and love to do it. It informs so much of her interactions with everyone else and I love it so much

[im-still-watching-anime]

yamato: i don’t think i’m handling the team well, they fought throughout our entire last mission

kakashi: haha no you’re doing great that’s just their form of teamwork🥰

[forumjutsu]

Sakura: Sensei? Are you OK?

Kakashi *lying face down on the grass*: Oh, yeah, yeah. I've just momentarily lost my willing to live.

Kakashi: It'll go away in a minute

[suika-suigetsu]

Happy b-day, Naruto.

[nekarth]

Some things never change…

I made this little drawing while I resting hehe

[watermelonsloth]

*About Sasuke*

Sakura: I can fix him

Naruto: I love him no matter how many men, women, and children he’s killed

Kakashi: I gave up on trying to fix him

Sai: “I can fix him” Okay Bob the Builder, relax

Ino: “I can fix him” You can’t even fix your sleep schedule bestie

Itachi: I can fix him by making him worse

Orochimaru: “I can fix him” That’s cute. I can break him. I can leave him a shell of who he once was.

Suigetsu: I can fix him, but whatever he’s got going on is much more amusing.

Karin: “I can fix him” Yeah? Well I can accept him as he is. You don’t like the murder? Grow up. The atrocities are a part of him and I’ve decided that they’re funny.

Juugo: What’s there to fix?

Obito: I can stick around and see how much he can fuck up. It’s kind of like watching a train wreck.