Nr. 1 and 12 for the .. what does wip mean anyway? W...words i.. penis?
Also, for some reason, everytime i read ur username, i read it as "straight todd", so in my head ur a straight jock guy named todd 💔
yeah, words in penis, you nailed it. and maybe straight jock todd is out there somewhere earnestly writing gay naruto fanfic, but not here lmao
the last sentence you wrote (im giving the whole paragraph bc im generous and also the last sentence is incredibly vague lol)
Talking out loud to Kurama isn’t something he loves doing in front of people, but he’s flustered and Kakashi isn’t gonna be weird about it. Kakashi’s too nice to be weird about it. The thought earns an even smarmier smile, but graciously, thankfully, Kurama’s presence recedes back to subconscious levels. Okay. Good.
2. a trope you’re really into right now
idk if it's really a trope but lately i've been a fan of boldness, as opposed to slow burns. idk a character putting themself out there is infinitely more interesting to read. also biting. biting and blood.
For the fanfic writer ask, number 2 and 18! I can't write the questions for you though, it was already hard enough to remember the numbers!
2. a character whose POV you’re currently exploring
im sure it's obvious i've been writing from naruto's pov lately. but i also have a sakura wip in the background, set in the same universe as my other fics. mostly bc i find her voice fun and i left some meat on the bone with her pov, partially bc i wanted to write one less focused on the boys. idk, i just like writing her pov
18. if you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic
so i sometimes keep my cuts, sometimes don't, and i definitely didn't keep any from my published naruto fics. honestly, i don't think i even cut much, so you aren't missing any diamonds in the rough
I haven't posted a draft lately so HERE 🫵 have some KakaNaru
Title: By The Gods
Summary:
After getting hit by an enemy seal, a twenty year old Kakashi Hatake from a war torn world finds himself in a new version of Konoha. Though struggling, it's nothing like the near wasteland he comes from. People are happy here, safe. Alive. There's another version of himself, older and strong enough to be crowned Kage.
There's an angel, too. One with gold hair and blue eyes and far too pretty a smile to let slip away from him.
More:
Kakashi is twenty years old when he dies and wakes up in a world that isn't his own.
It's immediately evident that the Konoha he comes to in isn't the same one he fell protecting. Things are different here, from the style of the buildings, to the extra faces dotting the mountainside. Even the chakra seems calmer, not polluted by the strife and bloodshed of war as Kakashi has always known it to be.
Everything is a haze, his vision blurred and his ears ringing. Flickering memories of a seal lighting up the ground— swallowing him whole in a pit of fiery magma— flit behind his eyelids every time he blinks. He can still feel it scalding against his skin, the burnt orange glow stained into the edges of his vision.
At first, he thinks he must've died. It's the only explanation that makes sense at the time. The clean air, the peaceful atmosphere, and... and him.
The blonde man.
It's not Minato-sensei, because Kakashi has known him his entire life and never once has he felt like this. His hair is a shade off from his teacher's, a near perfect gold that reflects the sun like glitter. Blue eyes peer down at him, raging whirlpools a mixture of so many hues he could never hope to piece them apart.
He looks like the embodiment of summer, the solstice in all its highest glory. His chakra laps at him like the soothing waves at an ocean's sandy shore, easing the lingering scald of whatever seal picked him apart and then put him back together again.
Kakashi reaches for it, he's quite sure. He can't see much, can hear even less, but he knows with certainty that those fingers laced with his, if only for a moment. That when he reached his hand out, for the first time in his life, somebody reached back. Somebody pulled him up.
Kakashi sees his father's masked face from the corner of his eye. His knees give, and that hand slips away to catch him by the arm. When Kakashi blearily turns his head, all he sees is gold. A golden coast and the bluest waters. Somehow, Kakashi has made it into heaven.
Blessedly, he's been touched by an angel.
More:
His name is Naruto Uzumaki, and he's the most wonderful thing Kakashi has ever seen.
He smells like tangerines and something spiced, and his beauty is beyond what Kakashi thought possible. He's so kind, so warm and overwhelming good that he wants to bury himself in him and never come back out.
Kakashi is used to wanting. Wanting for safety, for food, for even the briefest of breaks. There's was no time for kindness in the world he came from. To be gentle was to be a liability, and no good came from coddling one another.
It was best to detach yourself, because with attachment only came pain. Kakashi doesn't remember the last time anyone smiled at him, and never has anyone done it so brightly. Naruto is enthusiastic and joyful, this radiating ball of positivity that Kakashi leans into like a flower to the sun.
He's beautiful. A representation of all the best ways this universe varies from Kakashi's own, and God, Kakashi wants. He always, always wants, but this time it's with a hunger. With itching teeth and aching hands and the urge to grab on and never let go, lest he lose the gem he's found.
Because Naruto— Naruto loves him. He cares, and Kakashi knows that's just because his sensei is an older, far more lax version of himself, but he doesn't care. Greedily, he wants whatever he can get, whatever Naruto will give him.
"Okay! I think this'll totally work for us, believe it!" Naruto's hand was in his again, their palms slotted like puzzle pieces. "I know my place isn't the biggest or nicest, but I think we can make it work! If you're seriously okay with bunking with me. I know I can be like, a lot."
"Of course I'm okay with it." Kakashi intoned, voice devoid of any inflection that may give him away. He gazed down at Naruto, committing his expression to memory. "Thank you for allowing me into your home."
"Any Kakashi-sensei is a Kakashi-sensei I'll lay my life down for." Naruto proclaimed. "Or in this case, my sheets. I hope you weren't lying about being used to sharing, because I don't own a futon and my couch has a hole burned through the middle of it right now. Long story."
Kakashi didn't quite smile. He wasn't sure how to yet. At this rate, he was certain it wouldn't be long until he found out.
Notes:
-A 20 year old Kakashi from a war-torn world gets plopped in canon shortly after the Pein attack and meets a 19 year old Naruto who is so overwhelmingly positive it's blinding.
-Kakashi immediately wants him with a blinding hunger that makes him sick. Naruto is so kind to him, reaching out to touch him, to talk to him, to smile at him. Naruto is so used to his Sensei version of Kakashi that treating this one familiarly comes easy as water through a river bed.
-This Konoha just rebuilt and recovered from the Pein attack. Naruto is adored by the entire village at this point and there's this weird pocket of peace and settling now that the disaster has passed. Kakashi barely knows what to do with himself— he's never been in a situation where he can be off edge.
-Kakashi is a very quiet and bleak person. He doesn't ask for anything. If he doesn't like something, he doesn't say. He came from a world that was almost completely devoid of warmth, because that kind of affection was a liability. It would get you killed.
-So here he comes, this depressed, touch starved man, and here Naruto is, opening his doors to him, loving him, feeding him, and somehow knowing his likes and dislikes without him ever having to say.
-Naruto is so bright. His universe was all smoggy skies and death, but Naruto practically glows. Kakashi wants to possess him more than anything, wants to run his hands all over him, taste him, give him everything
-He's also afraid he'll taint him. That he's dirty and will ruin Naruto somehow, but he's not strong enough to resist the pull either.
-Naruto says his bed enough is big enough for them to share without ever touching. Technically, he's correct. Except at night he's a magnet and immediately attaches himself to Kakashi
-Kakashi does not mind
-Pathetic dog Kakashi who would do anything Naruto says and wants him with a writhing desperation. Follows him quietly everywhere. Has little interest in much else. Always wants to hold hands or be in contact with him, and Naruto is the touchiest person ever, so it works.
-Hokage Kakashi is kinda concerned but almost views this other him as a sort of younger brother in a way. He understands intimately how he ended up like this, because he'd almost ended up this way himself.
-Naruto never existed in Kakashi's universe. Kushina died long before Kakashi could meet her.
-Sakura is kind of freaked out because this Kakashi is scary as hell. He's covered in scars, his expression never changes, he moves without making a sound. He answers with nods and shakes of the head. Naruto doesn't seem spooked by him at all, but he's just unnerving
-Anyone who meets him agrees. Naruto is like this fluffy little golden retriever next to this ex pit fighter dog. Kakashi is fucking scary. Something is wrong with him, and everyone can tell. He seems benign until provoked, and then he looks like a literal psycho, zero to sixty.
-Naruto kind of just gets him, though. He sees past whatever walls he's got up and simply understands. He treats him like any other person, not realizing that Kakashi has never really had that before. He's always been a tool, but now someone looks at him and sees a man.
-Kakashi wants him ravenously. He grew up in a world where if you find a good thing, you take it. Because if you don't, somebody else will.
-Naruto yaps, Kakashi listens. Naruto goes, Kakashi goes. Naruto showers, Kakashi sits outside on the floor with his back against the door, envisioning licking water off every inch of his skin.
-Naruto just absentmindedly does stuff in front of Kakashi, like change clothes or stretch before training, and Kakashi wants that cookie. He's constantly reaching out to touch and sniff and even lick. And Naruto doesn't see anything wrong with it, so he just lets it happen.
-Why are you straddling Kakashi, Naruto? Because he was sitting on the couch and silently pulled you down on top of him with no explanation? Okay, makes sense. Why didn't you move? Oh, because he put his hands on your thighs and held you there? Makes sense, continue comparing ramen flavors and playing with his hair.
-Kakashi is the most down bad ever but he's also insanely dangerous. Anything that gets in his way is getting eviscerated, and heaven help anyone that threatens Naruto specifically.
-Kakashi is a machine. He's terrifyingly intense, the direct opposite of Naruto and his absentmindedness, but somehow they work. Naruto is like the sweet to his sour.
-Naruto is like a clueless, fearless white woman that goes "AWWW! Look, a puppy! It's so cute!" and then brings home a literal wolf thinking it's a stray dog.
-Kakashi is the wolf that's so blindsided that he lets himself get domesticated.
-When they finally kiss Kakashi is going to quite literally eat him alive. That bed frame is going to break. Give him a taste he's gonna take the platter.
-Basically more Kakashi panting over Narut, but make him quieter, more traumatized, and a desperate yearner who knows nothing about socializing.
Thesis statement: The popularity of "found family" is a great thing, especially as it celebrates the importance of non-biological, non-romantic relationships. However, an overemphasis on this relationship model can lead us to undervaluing philia in favor of storge, in much the same way that an overemphasis on shipping can lead to undervaluing philia in favor of eros. It can also lead to an erasure of the differences between philia and storge, treating these two types of love as interchangeable instead of celebrating the distinctive aspects of each.
...Yeah, this could definitely be an Entire Literal Essay, actually. This is...not the short version, but it is the shortest I can manage.
So my main thought is that Friendship is the hardest form of love for our culture to see as distinct and important in its own right, and “found family” often (though not always) ends up as a sort of...middle ground between that point and the “Only Romance Is Important” idea. In a ship-dominated culture, Friendship is often reduced to Level 1 Romance, and—at least in some ways—a found-family-dominated fandom culture can end up reducing Friendship to Level 1 Family.
In practice, I think that....even when we know that we don’t see or want to see an important relationship as Romantic, a lot of us still struggle with the idea of Friendship by itself being equally valuable or important. So we equate “familial” with “important” (because family is undeniably as important as romance, right? Or at least it’s a lot easier to make that case—and also, there is the not-at-all-insignificant benefit that it marks your view of a relationship as CLEARLY platonic!), and then we try to fit every relationship we love into a clearly-labeled Family-Shaped Box, in order to affirm its importance and give it legitimacy that “just friendship” might not.
...which is, ironically, what shippers are sometimes doing when they seem to be putting every relationship they love into a Romance-Shaped Box for the same reason. That’s the highest-status box there is! Don’t you think this relationship deserves the highest Relationship Rank??
But Friendship—philia, using the Greek word (or at least using it as C. S. Lewis uses it—isn’t a weaker form or “first stage” of other loves. It’s its own form of love. Not lesser, but different. And if we keep following our instinct to “legitimize” it by conflating it with family/storge, we end up doing both kinds of love a disservice.
(And I am definitely including myself in the group of people with this instinct! There’s a fandom I’ve gotten into recently that—as not infrequently happens—has a central relationship you could easily consider “father-son,” “best friends,” or a mixture of the two, and there’s variance within the fandom. I personally view this relationship pretty much purely as “best friends” in my own interpretation, but...a few years ago, I would have been much closer to the “father-son” camp. And even though I’ve consciously changed my approach to character relationships over those last few years—mainly due to a variety of other fandom exposures over the past few years, and the pro-friendship opinions I‘ve formulated while thinking about them—I still have some of those pro-familial instincts I entered fandom with! They’re very much what I came here with, and even though I now like other approaches better, they’re still in my brain.)
The disservice to philia comes in the fact that we are still not celebrating it as a non-romantic, non-familial form of love in its own right—which stinks, because it’s great!! and important to humans!! and we should all appreciate how wonderful Friendship is without feeling like we have to turn it onto another kind of relationship once it passes some Importance Threshold. It’s also a less-important disservice to specific fictional relationships that we try to fit into a Family Box and maybe end up misrepresenting or oversimplifying in the process.
The disservice to storge comes in the fact that, with the label of “Family” so highly valued in itself, it tends to get overused and slapped on everything until it’s started to lose all distinctively familial meaning. It becomes harder for us to explore the depths and beauties of distinctively familial love when we’ve lost the verbal distinction between “relationships founded upon specifically familial roles, a strong shared background, and/or an unchosen yet unbreakable connection” (which is how I would identify storge relationships just off the top of my head) and the “found family” definition of “any group of people who love each other not-exclusively-romantically and aren’t related.”
Personally, I kinda miss alternative labels like TVTropes’ “True Companions” or “Platonic Life Partners.” Characters don’t need to be spouses or siblings to be important to each other. They can be solely and purely—though not “just!”—friends.
before watching naruto i knew that there were a lot of people who disliked sakura and thought she was annoying, but now that im watching the show im kind of rolling my eyes because like. while she does have her moments it’s never any worse than whatever sasuke and naruto are doing. in fact, the three of them are actually so similar that the fact that people are hating on her specifically just feels very pointed. they’re all stubborn kids with a lot of potential and a violent, desperate need to prove themselves (usually against a specific person), and before meeting ino, sakura was also a lonely and bullied child, just like naruto.
there’s something to be said about how she’s written to be “the girl” of the group and how this makes her writting feel occasionally flat and repetitive, but at the same time, this is so clearly written to be a facade to hide her more vivid inner thoughts like. and also naruto and sasuke also at the end of the day fall under their own occasionally flat and repetitive archetypes as well, it’s just that people tend to hate sakura’s more than the boys’ and therefore she receives most of the hate
Shikamaru being fixated on Naruto and Naruto on purpose keeping secrets about himself for when shika needs a stimulant
Like the Nara make a front about being lazy to hide the fact of their very real chronic fatigue
Like shikamaru in a battle crashing rapidly and Naruto screams to him a fact about himself so shika gets that rush of energy he needs
I would love if Naruto purposely does shit so he had secrets he can tell shika
“For the fixation” is a phrase team seven learns to fear bc they just know something crazy is going to happen so Naruto can wave it in front of his lil bf like a puzzle box
100% Naruto practices anything sexual with his clones to be sure he can do The Best Job before he ever has sex with anyone else
I want this to drive his partner insane, first bc of envy (someone else got to Naruto first that's the only reasonable explanation to Naruto being basically a Sex God) and then Maximum!Horniness bc the mental imagine of all Naruto on Naruto action is overwhelming
He’s overly freaked because any horny fantasy or position could be immediately acted out ever since he was 12.
Bro pulled up with years of experience under his belt by the time a relationship was even thought
Also cuck clone to watch and make sure he doesn’t look super weird from a different angle or anything
I feel like Sasuke would be the most jealous about it tbh. He was gone and Naruto was fucking someone else he apparently had ALL his fucking firsts with and it was his fault.
What did he expect? Naruto to wait for him? When he told him to stop chasing him?
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