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ind. iruka umino from naruto written by danny.

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rules & about for IRUKA UMINO aka SCNSEI

TLDR;

this is a roleplay blog for iruka umino.

this blog is written by danny. i use they/them pronouns. if this cannot be respected, you will be blocked.

muse is 18+ ( and i myself am 24! ) however, i only rarely write explicit smut. plotting about it, alluding to it, joking about it, setting it up and fading to black- that’a all good! i just need to have a convo with you before i write it!

I HAVE NOW FINISHED THE MAIN PLOT OF NARUTO, however I have not watched boruto. everything i know about that show is told to me or discovered by reading wiki pages at 3am. i am open to writing and plotting with boruto charas but please bear with me!

i am a full-time social worker. replies will be slow and interactions selective.

other naruto & multifandom muses are on @allgather​ !

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PLAYS ‘HOT FOR TEACHER’ AT FULL VOLUME.

@scnsei. ind. iruka umino written by danny.

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“Is that the best you can do?” / cocky asshole 😭

why is it that shinobi only seem to know how to flirt when it involves the clashing of blades?

iruka is no exception. he finds it thrilling to spar with obito. it's always under the guise of training ( and it is welcome. teaching has pulled him away from active duty, so their sparring matches are the most combat he regularly sees ), but the way they speak to one another while exchanging blows - there is no mistaking it: this is shinobi flirting at its finest.

obito is remarkably strong, stronger than him in spades, and it pulls his best out of him. iruka is forced to be quicker, be cleverer, think faster, work harder just to reach him where he's at - and it's a rush like no other. iruka revels in it; the dynamic movements of obito's body in response to his, a dance they share. like a good student, he likes to push himself, and pushing himself against obito? it's fireworks ( pressing himself against obito does the same, but that usually only comes if he can snag victory ).

it drives him crazy how obito goads him while they fight. is that the best you can do? oh, he's going to kiss kill him for that! iruka pushes harder, moves closer to try and land a blow, ignores the warmth in his cheeks ( this is just a tactic of his, iruka is sure, riles him up to make him lose his concentration so he can claim victory for himself. bastard ). their close quarters combat is always a little too close, but he wants this win so badly, wants to wipe that lopsided grin off his lips, wants to do claim those lips as his reward, wants to-

focus, iruka, you idiot! you're such a cliché: a shinobi who falls for their opponent. but a tough opponent makes the victory all that much sweeter. and maybe, with his wandering eye and their shared flirtations, he's found an unconventional way to best obito after all.

he looks for an opening and - there - quickly closes the space between them, places them chest to chest. "how's this?" iruka can't contain the quip before he goes in for the finishing blow, craning his neck up to fit his lips against obito's. its a quick kiss ( and one he's already wishing to continue ) but its enough to throw his opponent for a moment, and creates time for iruka to knock obito onto his back. iruka is too gleeful when he sits on top of obito to pin him to the ground of the training field. "what did you think? not bad, huh?" now he gets to be the cocky one.

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iruka has a complicated relationship with october tenth. for more than ten years, it marks the anniversary of the ninetails attack and, with it, the loss of his parents. it marks such a stark and terrible shift in his life, from the member of a happy family, from living in a house full of laughter and comfort and warmth, to being on his own, the ward of a state and of a hokage that didn’t look after him. it’s a day spent in mourning, in front of his parents graves, where he talks to them or cries or simply sits by them, in quiet company.

after he begins teaching naruto, once he takes the boy in, he realizes he’s never truly had a birthday celebration. he’s only a child! every child needs a birthday! the date - that horrible, terrible day - is problematic for iruka, though, and holds him back for a while. it holds so much pain, so many years worth of mourning, but he wants so badly to give naruto the world. it starts small. a well-wishing on the day of and out for ramen for dinner, still giving iruka the time he needs to sit by his parents in mourning. 

as the years go by, iruka devotes more of his time to birthday celebrations for this child he loves so dearly. the day is one of laughter, of frantic organizing for bigger and bigger parties as their friends and family expand, of baking and cooking and dinner reservation and sappy, sentimental gifts. october tenth morphs, it changes. it begins to mean family and love, rather than loss, and is representative of his beloved son. iruka modifies his tradition, visits his parents graves on the day before, or perhaps the day after. he doesn’t think they would mind the change - they always believed in putting family first. and naruto is now, without a doubt, iruka’s family.

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What do you do with tenderness when all you expect is fury?

— Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Nguyễn,” Not Here

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scnsei-a​:

the romantic he is, iruka makes seduction all about soft, teasing touches in the right places and whispered sweet nothings in his partner’s ear. there’s a gentleness in the way he communicates his desire, his affection and attraction. and, wouldn’t you know it, but most of the big tough shinobi boys he fools around with melt at the slightest amount of genuine affection or praise from a lover. iruka revels in it, absolutely eats up how these strong, poised warriors are so easily flustered. how they blush when he calls them cute or beautiful or lovely. how they squirm as he touches them slow and gentle, telling them how good they’re doing. 

iruka doesn’t hold back; he offers his sweet and wholehearted praise, always genuine in his affection as he reaffirms that his partners are worthy of love and adoration, peppering their necks with kisses in-between. it’s all absolutely adorable to iruka, and he finds the inevitable reaction to the praise and the sweetness irresistible.

tldr; iruka says his partners are lovable even after everything. and he will make sure they know he thinks they are beautiful.

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scnsei-a​:

thinking today about how Iruka is so ready and willing to love. he always gives too much, too quick and winds up with a broken heart. but he’s used to that, tells himself this is just how shinobi are. repressed, stoic, scared. he can’t blame them. he’s scared, too.

but for all the love he has, iruka doesn’t really know how to be loved. he lost his parents so young, he prioritized being a caretaker in all aspects of his life. he only knows how to love, to give his love away and hunt for scraps in return. so he’s surely overwhelmed by the force of his partner’s or friend’s love, the first time he finds someone who is willing to show him that vulnerability. that closeness. to be gentle with him and love him.

it’s overwhelming and it’s profound. shakes him to his core. probably moves him to tears.

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scnsei-a​:

irukas mom was a senju. he’s very disconnected from his family history, both the umino and senju sides, so he doesn’t know much of his family history. it essentially died with his parents and it hurt too much to look in the boxes of their things, the family records, for many, many years after. but it’s always been STRIKING as he’s grown how much more he looks like hashirama. by the time tsunade returns to the village, it’s undeniable that there MUST be some relation, so much so that she and iruka sit down and track his linage. go through iruka’s family documents, find out exactly where his mother fits in. it turns out, his mother and tsunade are cousins, meaning hashirama was his great-grandfather. it turns out, yes, iruka does have living relations. he’s a medicnin, and now it makes sense why it was so easy for him to pick up, why it feels so right when he channels his chakra into healing, why he has such endurance and can heal a lot of people, for a long time, without tiring out. it’s like this knowledge helps it all fall into place.

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iruka is one of the most, if not THE MOST, emotionally intelligent and emotionally available adults in the village. it makes him a good mentor, a good teacher, a good parent and friend. but being so in touch with his emotions in a world where the norm is to repress one’s hurt and trauma, one’s fear and worry, even one’s love and affection, it makes it hard for iruka to feel like he can go to anyone ELSE with his immeanse and often difficult feelings. who’s there for the man who’s been so many folks mentor? who’s shoulder does he cry on? who listens to his fears, calms his anxieties? he has friends who he loves, but there are walls that surely exist between them, that makes it inappropriate or uncomfortable to broach the topic. even when it hurts, even when his heart feels fit to burst- shinobi keep their emotions under wraps.

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if you have romantic feelings for iruka and he doesn’t know ( and BOY, can he be oblivious sometimes ) then you will be forced to endure hearing about his constant stream of boyfriends/one night stands/crushes on the stranger he met at the grocery store and how he thinks they are so dreamy and perfect and how they might be “the one.” enjoy such highlights including: watching him fall fast and hard for anyone who gives him the time of day, hearing him sing their praises ad nauseum, watching him devote his time and all the love in his big ol’ heart to them regardless of if they deserve it, and seeing how it wounds him and his tender heart when he is inevitably more invested in the relationship than his partner and he gets hurt because he gave too much of himself, too quickly, to someone who didn’t treat him gently.

tldr; iruka has a lot of love to give so he develops feelings Fast and Often but also is Very Oblivious to what’s in front of him : )

[scnsei]

i YEARN for someone to pine over iruka. to see everything he does as wonderful and good and beautiful. to watch him g0 through these cycles of ppl who are careless with his heart. to know they could be better be GENTLE but holding back bc of feelings of inadequacy or fear of ruining a friendship/partnership/working relationship.

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an iruka rant re: chunin & teaching:

iruka never reaches jonin. as his classmates, even his own students outpace him, iruka is happily settled as a chunin, and more importantly, as a teacher. as a student and young man, iruka wanted to reach the top just like every one else. and he was skilled, smart, a very good student and a pretty good fighter. his skills were never perfect, he was by all accounts a pretty average, if not hard working, ninja. he relied mainly on his speed and his cleverness for advantages in battle. but he always had too much empathy, emotions too large for him to swallow. his teachers, his own sensei, told him as much- if he ever wanted to reach jonin, he’d have to learn how to push that compassion down.

his interest, before teaching, was medical corps and healing. it seemed best suited for his bleeding heart, and his sensei encouraged this interest in him, thinking it his only path to becoming jonin. he trained hard and long as a chunin to learn medicine, and he’s so glad now that he has those skills, but it still seemed his empathy, his softness kept getting him in trouble as a ninja. somewhere around the time he’s 18 or 19, iruka realizes that he cannot progress through the ranks any more. he comes to terms with the fact that he is not suited for this life, and switches paths, ( encouraged by the words of the 3rd hokage ) and begins to study to be a teacher.

it’s such a natural fit, he wonders how he never saw it before. he tutored friends through the academy, helped his teammates pass written exams and evaluations. his grades were high in anything written, and he was happiest as a cadet. school was where he belonged, and returning as an adult- it feels as though things have begun to fall into place for him. he teaches with an open heart and with joy, he pours himself fully into every one of his students, as a mentor and as an educator. he stopped dreaming of being a jonin, stopped caring about moving up the ranks, instead becoming invested in developing his teaching pedagogy. working his way up to headmaster, where not only is he able to nurture the next generation of ninjas, but he is helping his own teaching staff grow and improve. and it’s a deeply fulfilling life for him, one that doesn’t necessitate hurting anyone ( unless it’s for the protection of his students, which he’ll do in a heartbeat ) and one that allows him to remain kind and soft and empathetic.

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thinking abt how iruka is a father figure to naruto, and a full-fledged teacher to a class of kids he’s trying to prepare so they don’t get killed in combat, all by the time he’s 23 ( and he’s been doing it for a few years before that, too ). thinking of the pressure that must put on him, not only external, but the pressure from himself to not let these kids down. thinking about how he takes time out of his day to advocate for his students who are, according to the system, out of his hands, but he shows up for them and speak out for them and works hard for their protection. thinking about how this must grate on him, on his faith and optimism, on his very position within the village. thinking about how he must carry around the guilt of every student’s death, every injury, wondering if he could have done more for them, in his own classroom and beyond.

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thinking abt how iruka isn’t especially strong or highly skilled but he does have grit and resilience. so, he’ll keep fighting no matter what. through injury, though well outmatched by his opponent, he will continue to fight with whatever he has- the blade of a weapon, his own nails, his teeth if he has to- if it means protecting his loved ones and his village. and that means coming back from fights beat to a bloody pulp, forcing himself to walk on a leg that’s in excruciating pain. but he still walks, still stands, still fights, because he doesn’t have a choice as a shinobi and a protector. either he fights now or he grieves later, and he will not lose anyone else if he can do anything about it.

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obsessed w the hc that iruka is related, even distantly, to the senju clan bc that means he does have living relatives and one of them is tsunade, a woman he admired so much and loves working with and who I genuinely believe is grateful for iruka’s intelligence and labour !!!

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@scnsei. ind. iruka umino written by danny.

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I think iruka is specifically very protective over the rookie 9 because they’re one of, if not THE first class of students he ever had. these are the first kids he ever taught, and he’s dealing with watching his precious and beloved students grow and fight for the first time. so of course he’s protective, of course he’s emotional, he doesn’t know how to stop himself and he doesn’t have any practice yet. perhaps by the time konohamaru makes genin he’s better at it, less fearful, more trusting that these kids will survive, but that first group. those kids who he adores with his whole heart. watching them grow makes him proud but knowing that they will fight and face danger - it makes him so incredibly scared.

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sexy lil concept for y’all: iruka, usually so kind, so good natured, so soft, absolutely wrecking someone. because they threatened or hurt his loved ones, the people he’s sworn with his whole heart to protect. perhaps he’s underestimated by them, by everyone, seen as “just a chunin teacher,” but when his love is on the line his strong, earth-shattering feelings are undeniably what fuel him. his love is protection, but it can also be lethality. love and rage can co-exist within him - it is one that brings on the other.