Every Member of Team 7 is like. Strangely literal. And it fucks people up all the time.
Like, Kakashi has been living in the real adult world for years and thus has at least pretended to pick up sarcasm, but he also uses it mainly to overcompensate for the fact that a lot of sarcasm goes over his head oops. Luckily he got the reputation of a no-fun-no-nonsense ANBU captain, so when he has deadpan reactions to sarcastic comments or jokes it’s seen as him being an asshole who doesn’t want to indulge his subordinates instead of a dumbass that doesn’t even know when sarcasm is being used half the time. To this day, he always gets a pang of pride when he recognizes and returns Sarcasm.
This is actually a big part of why Gai and Tenzo are the easiest people by far for him to get along with! Gai exagerates things, sure, but that’s comperitively really easy to follow, and the man can be just as bad about getting Sarcasm as Kakshi is. Same goes for Tenzo, the ROOT baby that was never properly socialized and doesn’t get idioms because he was never exposed to them. Tenzo’s face lights up every time he gets a sarcastic comment, and Kakashi can’t stop himself from smiling under his mask every time because he so gets that feel.
Anyway, getting Team Seven is a damn weight off of his shoulders in this way.
Sasuke, poor kid, was born and raised an Uchiha until he was 8, and the only humor most Uchiha have is dry, sarcastic wit. Some of the Uchiha kids would laugh at him and call him dumb when he didn’t get a joke and he’d run crying to Itachi, who outright banned Shisui and Izumi from being sarcastic around Sasuke. Because of this, Sasuke can’t make a joke to save his life half of the time, and raising himself in basically-isolation with a major hyperfixation on fratricide and nothing else did Not help him here either.
Then we have Naruto, who did raise himself, and who kids wouldn’t talk to anyway. Not getting sarcasm was really just another drop in the bucket of things he was called dumb for, and he didn’t care all that much- he just thought Sarcasm was dumb and blew raspberries at people whenever they mocked him for not getting it.
Sakura, being a total perfectionist, is the best out of the four of them- she made flashcards.she developed a cirriculum. She understood sarcasm out of spite, and it might take her a few seconds to process it and run it through her 12 mental checklists, but she will understand and respond to sarcasm and idioms 78% of the time. She still finds them tedious and annoying and frustrating when she’s not making the jokes, but she’s the teams Sarcasm Translator. and has also made back up flash cards for them if/when they’re interested (Kakashi shares his set with Tenzo)
But, anyway, they all feed off of each other here. Sarcasm is basically banned on Team Seven as an unwritten and unspoken rule that they all eagerly obey. This makes them lowkey unbearable to other teams, because when they’re in a team setting they aren’t used to even trying to look for sarcasm, so the likes of Shikamaru and Neji can’t say a damn thing to mock them that works because their second language is Sarcasm, and they all think that Team 7 does it on purpose.
Shikamaru: Wow, you three really are attached at the hip. Do you brush each other’s teeth too?
Sakura: What? no, why would we?
Naruto: ....what’s brushing your teeth.
Sakura, screeching: Ok So Maybe I Should Start Brushing Naruto’s Teeth What The Fuck Thanks Shikamaru.
Shikamaru, has whiplash: ....wh. what.
Neji, dry as a dessert: Wow, you’re the infamous Kakashi Hatake’s team? Truly, I’ve never been so impressed in my life.
Sakura: That’s high praise, we appriciate it!
