First off, love your blog. I haven't seen anything like this before and it's a treat! Do you think Sakura would write down random thoughts/idea's? Or would that be Naruto? I like to think that each member of Team 7 would carry something that the other members need for their stimming/being comfortable and stuff like that. It means their packs/holsters are a little crowded/messy, and people ask why they carry all that junk. But they don't know how necessary it is for them to have these things.
//I’m happy you’re happy with my word vomit =)
Oh, this is a trick question; they both have ‘write it down’ energy, but they also both have that dumbass-confidence in themselves that ‘they don’t need to write it down cause they’ll remember it this time’ and they never do.
Sakura breaks out of this once her remembering things is important to saving lives as a doctor, but she can’t for the life of her carry around a notepad without leaving it somewhere, so she just. writes on her own skin. Everywhere.
Tsunade can’t decide if she’s proud that Sakura found a solutution that seems to work for her ‘memory issues’ or horrified by all the ink. How is it in her ear. It’s everywhere but her hands somehow and Tsunade is scared and impressed.
And Naruto tries to follow her lead but his skin is already covered in ink from doodles 70% of the time and he’s still semi-illiterate so it doesn’t really work for him rip.
Listen. On their first few missions Kakashi insisted that ‘they were shinobi’ and they ‘can’t be reliant on toys and garbage’ and all the other rhetoric he fed himself growing up b/c it’s second nature for him.
Then Sasuke has a full on sensory meltdown while they’re patrolling during a festival or something and he gets a (very unwelcome thank you very much) flashback to when this would happen to him like all the time as a baby ninja and Minato would help him and Kakashi’s like ‘oh right. These are literal children and I’m supposed to be the adult thing. Shit.’
He doesn’t know how to help but Sakura does and she makes him babysit Naruto while she does some Doton that puts her and Sasuke in a stony escape from the noise and light (she literally learned it to help herself when she gets close to this rip).
After this, Kakashi has a. Change of heart, to say the least; these kids aren’t him, he can’t treat them the way he treats himself.
There’s a storage scroll exclusively full of chewy stims for Sasuke (Please stop chewing on twigs Sasuke) and ear muffs for Sakura (loud sounds are bad and BOTH of her boys are loud) and light up toys for Naruto and all sorts of fidgety shit for all of them. Suddenly, team productivity is through the roof.
Course he has to teach them how to either go long periods of time using them sparingly or be inconspicuous while using them.
They try gum for Sasuke but it doesn’t work because it’s too Rubbery and he hates rubbery textures. In a pinch, he can settle for a lolipop. Naruto just ‘Transforms’ into a little kid so it isn’t weird that he’s playing with a light up toy. Stuff like that.
Sakura doesn’t need this ‘extra training’, because she’s been living the ADHD Civilan Hell Life since she was 6 and actually had to interact with adults growing up, unlike her teammates. She has mastered the art of the ‘socially acceptable and excusable stim’. She hasn’t had any skin on her lips in years
Once a client or someone they got teamed with or something is like ‘why are your kids just goofing off aren’t they shinobi’ and then has to dodge 3 kunai from 3 adhd disasters with an inability to filter sound at all who accidentally were eavesdropping and refuse to have Kakashi even entertain the thought of taking their stimmy-toys away again. Like. Sakura looks Kakashi dead in the eyes and says ‘If you even fucking think about it I will put gaegogi in your fridge’ and Kakashi’s like ‘how did you get my address again’ and Sakura sticks her tongue out.
And Kakashi doesn’t even fucking think about it. He loves his kids too much to put them through that again;
