#nd if im being honest its really more of a character study than anything else

[apothecarywormcrud]

Boy howdy would I love to know more about your s/i and kubuto!

shit aight it’s been a while since i’ve talked about kawato (which is a very similar name and which was very accidental lmao.)

i’m just gonna skip right to the shippuden stuff bc that’s where the brunt of the Drama (tm) happens, but the buildup to that point is basically tfw ur childhood bff vanishes without warning and then shows up several years later at the chuunin exams but oops he’s also evil now. 

so tsunade decides she wants to send someone to spy on orochimaru. kawato is an ideal candidate despite only being a chuunin for two reasons: 

given that they were a child runaway from the mist, their loyalty to konoha has been on shaky ground since the beginning, so it’s not out-of-character for them to suddenly switch allegiances

they have a personal connection to someone in oto, which means they don’t need to come up with some convoluted lie about how they want power. it’s literally just “yeah i’m here because of kabuto” which is like. at least 25% true. 

at some point kabuto figures out what they’re up to, and he’s like, well, i should kill you and inform orochimaru, but as long as tsunade doesn’t know you’ve been compromised, we can use you to send misleading information. do that for me, and i won’t do either of those other things. and kawato, who wants to live and also is gay, is like, yeah, ok. 

and then there’s like. so much medical infodumping it’s fucking unbelievable. lil bit of sexy surgery. maybe they make out a bit idk everybody’s too busy having depression and being traumatized to get involved in romance. orochimaru eats shit nd then everybody goes on a fun lil field trip to ryuchi cave. kawato has to watch as kabuto slowly loses his marbles. i have a Very Cursed Timeline where they die and then get reanimated by edo tensei nd now this bastardous lil romance is happening between a snake bitch and a zombie. if im remembering right the Good Timeline is th one where kawato bails to join the war effort nd then has the final showdown vs. kabuto instead of itachi and sasuke bc that fight fucking sucked. therapy no jutsu eat my fucking ass. instead we get snake vs. stag beetle sage mode smackdown. fun times for the whole family. 

and uh. thats th gist of it really.