Hi! I loved your headcanon of Kakashi as a father! Could you do another with how Kakashi would be with his son as a teenager? Maybe how Kakashi reacts when his son starts dating or goes on missions?
Ok, just heads up, I’m using the same child from the baby headcanons, because I already hinted at this kid’s personality in that, and I’m just rolling with it. Also I didn’t know what I wanted for the timeline of this child’s age and Kakashi being Hokage, so it’s just all over the place.
Teen Hatake is like his father in the aspect that he gets promoted rather quickly when it comes to ninja ranking, but nothing to the extent of graduating at 5 and then becoming a chunin at 6. The village isn’t in a war and they don’t need soldiers that bad and Kakashi wanted him to have a childhood, but I’d give the safe assumption that he was a jonin by 13 or 14. With that being said, when it comes to his son being promoted, Kakashi usually tries to stay away from it all as much as he can, just because he doesn’t want officials to be swayed by the fact that Teen Hatake is the Hokage’s son and make it easier for him. If it was up to Kakashi, he’d make the promotion way harder on his son; boy gotta work for that title.
Kakashi taught him most of what he knows, but Teen Hatake did some training under Yamato, Shikamaru, and Gai (mainly verbal bc Gai’s legs, but still), so Teen Hatake’s a very solid and balanced shinobi. At an early age, Kakashi made sure that his son knew that if he wanted to be a shinobi that he was going to make his fight for it, so Kakashi trains his son hard- maybe a bit harder than he did with his genin; he expects more of his child. Surprisingly, Teen Hatake’s best at taijutsu for some odd reason, even though Gai isn’t the most hands on sensei anymore. Like, he’s good, guys. He can beat Kakashi if it’s taijutsu only, and at first this surprised Kakashi- not because he didn’t think his son could, but he always thought that his son would be more ninjutsu based, but regardless, he’s extremely proud of his son, because taijutsu is not easy. When Gai hears of this, he will not stop bragging to Kakashi about it; Kakashi will never hear to end of it.
Honestly, Kakashi is a bit internally conflicted when it comes to sending his son out on high ranking missions, because he knows that his child is very capable of competing them, but at the same time, he’s sending his child out to what may be his death sentence. It’s never that he doesn’t have the faith in his son and his son’s ability as a shinobi, but he is very well aware that sometimes even the best teams fail, and he just doesn’t want to be the one to send his child to his death. Heaven forbid if another shinobi had to return to the village and tell Kakashi that his son died; Kakashi wouldn’t handle that as nicely as he has handled other’s deaths. Kakashi came to the realization that he can’t protect his son as he used to; his child is not a baby anymore, but sometimes it’s just easier to protect them yourself than to hope that they can do it themselves…
OMG TEEN HATAKE HATES BEING THE SON OF THE HOKAGE SOMETIMES BC IT MEANS THAT HE HAS TO GO TO THESE FORMAL THINGS AND THERE’S NOTHING MORE THAT THIS CHILD HATES. 90 percent of the time he’s totally chill with being the first son, or whatever they call it, but dear Lord, this poor boy just hates anything and everything formal. He hates getting dressed up and smiling and dealing with all of these people who act like he’s not a lethal ninja that could take out every single person in the room in under a minute. He’s just interally dying the entire time, because all these Feudal Lords are acting like they know him and that’s he’s just this object and not a shinobi and it just grinds his gears. Let’s say there’s a State of the Village gathering every year, and Teen Hatake detests going to it; he begs his father to let him be out on a mission or something every year. This is the one time the Kakashi has to put his foot down and force his son to do something. And Teen Kakashi will argue with him for a minute, but eventually he just gives him and walks away all frustrated, because verbal fighting is just not his style.
It’s by the time that his son is in his mid teens, that Kakashi can actually tell if something is wrong with him. Remember how I said Kakashi was bad at telling if his son was sick or not? Yeah, it’s by the time he’s like 15 that Kakashi actually starts being able to tell if he’s sick or hurt. Teen Hatake is just really good at hiding the fact that there’s something wrong with him; high pain tolerance or something. One time he just shattered his entire hand and wrist and he tried to hide it from Kakashi, and Kakashi just wasn’t having it- made him go to the hospital, but not before giving that boy the hardest handshake of his life. Not good to hide pain Teen Hatake…
Teen Hatake really wasn’t interested in dating until his later teens, so like 17-19, which kind of surprised Kakashi, but not really. For most of his teenage years Teen Hatake was too busy with shinobi work and trying to keep up a decent image of the Hokage’s son, so he just didn’t have the time to commit to anyone. He didn’t really want start anything with anyone if he knew that he wasn’t going to give them a fair amount of time, so he just stayed away from it for the most part. But when he finally did decide to start dating someone; he forgot to tell his parents until like five months in the relationship. Oops.
Again, Kakashi fucking lucked out so hard with this child; the worst “rebel stage” that Teen Hatake goes through is coming home way too late with an excuse like “I fell asleep,” or “I didn’t keep a watch on me,” and forgetting to tell his parents major things; i.e. girlfriend, promotion, the fact that he almost burned the house down bc he fell asleep. Kakashi doesn’t particularly care that his son comes home late, because he knows that he’s to blame for that habit, but it’s the latter that irritates Kakashi. Teen Hatake has always been on the mature side for the most part, but the fact that he doesn’t tell Kakashi super important things is the one thing that drives Kakashi up the wall some days. Half the time Kakashi finds out about these things through village papers, and he just like….”Why, child?”
“So I saw that you got promoted to an ANBU captain …”
“Oh yeah, like a month ago, did I not tell you?”
“No, Teen Hatake…”
“Oops, sorry, Dad.”
“Why are you like this…”
Okay, also Teen Hatake does a lot of underage drinking, but he’s rarely ever completely drunk, but the times that he is, it’s just an absolute fucking mess, bc he says yes to everything and thinks that anything is a good idea. Anyway, he started drinking when he was like 14, because some Feudal Lords offered him something and he didn’t want to be rude, so ever since then he just casually drinks. He didn’t actually realize that there was a drinking age until like 16 when Kakashi caught him and was like, “Child, you’re not even hiding it…” and Teen Hatake was so confused until Kakashi told him that he wasn’t supposed to drink until he was 21 and Teen Hatake was just like “¯\_(ツ)_/¯ “I’ve been doing this since I was 14…” and Kakashi is so messed up by this fact bc how did he miss this for two years? And how can his kid hold liquor so well? This boy is going to have a fucking tolerance when he’s actually 21. Kakashi doesn’t even really know how to handle the situation honestly, because his son is actually responsible with it?? More so than most adults, so he doesn’t even stop him, he’s just like, “Don’t you dare tell your mother.. Until you’re like 19…”
Kakashi loves his son though, even with all the shit that this child absent mindly does…
BONUS: I think Kakashi’s son would have a fair amount of tattoos?? This isn’t a parenting headcanon, but Imma still put it here.
