The character au ask thingy
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Sukea, "no agency wants to hire him, but he's the best in the field" Spy au?
Shikaku, "I'm to old and tired for this shit, but someone has to do it right" Hokage au
Ibiki, "only one besides the Hokage, that knows all the creatures living in Konoha, and looks after them" Shifter au
Sukea is a well known name in the spy community. He’s efficient, leaves no evidence behind except for some purple markings on a mirror or wall nearby what he was doing, and has never been caught.
He has never even been seen. No one knows what ‘Sukea’ looks like, which make’s it easy for him to slip in and out without detection.
No one wants to work with Sukea because he’s constantly thwarting their own missions, or just being kind of a big jerk to them, but at the same time he’s one of the best spy’s they’ve ever seen (but also not seen XD) and it would be terrible if he joined another organization.
So while no one wants to work with him, they do want him to work for them. It’s better than having him as an enemy.
Problem is, no one knows who he is so they have no idea how to find him or offer him work.
It’s kind of a whole mess, but they keep trying.
the funniest part of it all for Sukea, is that he works at the cafe that Gai and Tenzo all like to frequent at separate times, and flirts with each of them whenever they’re in.
They just don’t recognize him because they have no idea what he looks like.
Shikaku-Hokage Shikaku Au
After Minato and Kushina’s death, Shikaku decides he has had enough. Even during his short time as Hokage, Minato was starting to make some real good changes to the system. Not perfect, but good.
He does not want to go back to Hiruzen’s way of doing things, so when Hiruzen says he’ll to back to being Hokage Shikaku protests and puts his name forward as Hokage.
He may not be the strongest in the village, but he is the smartest and that has to be worth something.
It’s a struggle of course. There are people who support him, and people who don’t. In the end though, he has the unwavering support of the jonin’s and that’s what he needs to be Hokage. So Hiruzen steps down and Shikaku takes the spot.
Not his favorite job to do, but he’s here now and there is no turning back.
First course of action, Danzo.
It’s no secret Shikaku hates and doesn’t trust Danzo, so he wants to know what exactly Danzo is up. To do so, he asks one of his best Anbu operatives to help him out. Hatake Kakashi.
When Danzo approaches Kakashi about joining Root, Shikaku isn’t at all surprised. In fact, he expected it. Kakashi is a feared name already at age 14, of course Danzo wants him and others like him.
So Shikaku make’s a plan and plants Kakashi in Root.
It works perfectly, though it does take a few years. By the time Kakashi is 16, he has enough info to give to Shikaku that allows him to face Danzo head on, and the fun part of that is Shikaku is not alone. He’s not going to fight Danzo, danzo would win. But he will destroy him. Make sure everyone knows what he has done to ‘protect’ Konoha.
Danzo has almost zero support in Konoha after that, and is banished. Shikaku naturally doesn’t think this will be the end of Danzo, but it is the end of Root in Konoha and he’s ok with that.
Tenzo ends up joining them. Two years with Kakashi as a partner has given Tenzo the escape from Danzo he needed, and he’s more than happy to leave the old man’s side to join Kakashi and Shikaku.
After Danzo’s taken care of, he needs to deal with the Uchiha.
Thankfully, with Shikaku as Hokage the Uchiha weren’t ostracized more because of the Kyubi attack. He actually asks Mikoto to adopts Naruto, which she is more than happy to do.
Unfortunatlly, there’s still resentment and hatred. It was seeded into the ground long before he took over and now he has to find a way to fix it.
Part of his solution is replacing Hiruzen’s elder council members with members from various clans. Fugaku, Inoichi, Choza, Hiashi, and others.
Honestly, one of the good things about being hokage is putting Fugaku and Hiashi into a room and watching them argue.
Every shifter is listed in a database as soon as they are discovered. Partially to know what kind of specialized missions they might be used for, partially just to keep track of them.
This does unfortunately mean that people with ill intentions who get hold of that database can hurt those who are shifters.
Ibiki himself is a shifter, able to transform into a salamander (it’s cool i love them so much!)
He’s the first person on sight when a new shifter is discovered, wanting to make sure that they’re safe and that they know they’ll be protected from people who try to hurt or use them.
Unfortunatly for him, he can’t save every shifter. One big issue that sticks with him for years is Tenzo, who they didn’t even know existed at all for years until Kakashi dragged him out of Riot.
Some of the cases Ibiki handles hands on, picking missions for them and doing check ups on them, are Kakashi (a Shiba Inu dog), Maito Gai (a tortoise), Genma (a crane), Anko (a snake) and Kurenai (a Ussuri brown bear).
There are clans of shifters that take care of themselves, such as the Nara’s. As well as Clans that will protect anyone born into their clan that turns out to be a shifter (The uchiha won’t allow anyone else to take care of their shifters, for example. The Hyuga are also very protective of their shifters and hate non clan members trying to interfier)
Once every two weeks Ibiki scheduals a check up with every shinobi shifter under his care, while someone else takes care of any of the civilians who happen to be a shifter.
Kakashi is his most difficult one, because he refuses to talk most days even though Ibiki can always tell there’s a lot on his mind. Gai and Kurenai are his most relaxing, easy one’s.
He actually starts having his meet ups with Kakashi and Gai at the same time because he notices Kakashi opens up a bit more with Gai around.
