Ok so I saw your codependent Obito & Rin post and I absolutely loved it so I just had to ask, do you have any other headcanons about them? Or even Team Minato in general? Your post was some of the best Team Minato content I've ever seen and Tumblr truly needs more Team Minato content
aww, thanks! I agree, I honestly adore Team Minato an excessive amount, though it doesn’t always show lol. This is literally forever late, but, here, you can have their first kill angst that I cut from the original post 0w0
-They both refuse to kill anyone for as long as they can, and Minato lets them get away with it longer then he probably should have
-(it just makes him sick, the thought of kind Rin and cheerful Obito and even traumatized baby Kakashi with blood on their hands. There’s no way he and Kushina were ever that young.)
-Anyway, they both avoid killing all the way until their first B-rank. Then they get ambushed, and Obito gets yanked by the collar away from Rin in the middle of the battle, and her blood goes cold.
-She feels Obito out and goes fucking rabid, sparring no thought for the Iwa nin in her way or trying to attack her.
-In one breathe, she is feeling out where Obito is and standing still, never something a shinobi can afford.
-In the next, she snarls, and everyone around her stutters and stumbles and freezes as they’re over come with hysterical terror and tears as the purple seals on her cheeks start to fade.
-In the third she blurs, appears behind the Nin that tried to kidnap Obito, and grabs the back of his neck. Her fingers spark and she closes her eyes, another rare luxary in a fight, and short circits every nerve she can feel.
-In the forth, the would-be-kidnapper falls dead, Obito is on the floor sobbing, and Rin is standing over him with a single-minded protective rage.
-by the eighth, Minato has finished the rest of the Iwa shinobi off, taking full advantage of their frozen state, ignoring the pooling despair because he couldn’t protect them, from either the Iwa nin or the fact that Rin is a killer.
-By the eleventh, Rin is on the floor sobbing into Obito’s arms as he tries to calm her down because he knows that her seals fading is very bad, especially here, especially after what she’s done-
-”We need to leave.” Obito says, somehow the first to speak, voice completely blank for the first time ever as he picks Rin up. “We need to leave now.” he emphesises, and that’s all he says before he’s gone, leaving Minato and Kakashi to stew in confusion for once. He almost wants to be proud, but he’s too worried.
-his first kill is soon after that. Sorta.
-Rin gets extra protective of him and trying to save him from having to take a life, and starts doing it more so he doesn’t have to, and it makes Obito pissed.
-They fight over it. they fight over it. not in a playful or loving or ‘cain instinct’ way like Minato and Kakashi have seen before. They aren’t touching without the intent to hurt, aren’t looking at each other without a glare or a snarl, aren’t talking without the passive aggressiveness of a verbal spar.
-scratch that, Rin isn’t talking at all.
-Yet, paradoxically, their protective instincts only double down.They fight to knock each other out and take watch every night. Their eyes are sharp twin glares whenever anyone- anyone- else gets too close. They are more ruthless in battle together then ever before, and now Obito is trying to kill people just to spite Rin, and, of course, Rin won’t fucking let him.
-kakashi hasn’t seen a shamrock on either of them in weeks, hasn’t seen either of them smile in just as long, and he almost thinks he’s worried about them.
-Then, two months after Rin’s first kill, Obito finally makes his own, and he shatters just like Rin knew he would, and Rin is so angry and sad her seals burn off again, and everyone feels like they’re on fire as she seethes.
-She’s ready to scream, ready to explode, ready to burn the forest to the ground because Obito’s done something he can never undo and she can’t help him, and even Minato can’t overcome the sudden pain just yet-
-and then she looks at Obito, and he looks at her, and they’re fear in his eyes. fear of her.
-She gasps, and flinches, and collapses just as Minato was about ready to move again anyway. once again he takes them out, and by the time he gets to Rin Obito is already reapplying her seals- after last time, he brings the stuff for it on every mission just in case.
-Minato approaches them carefully while Kakashi awkwardly goes off to do some clean up, and obito glares at him hard enough that he’s more shocked then ever the boy hasn’t unlocked his Sharringan.
-The boy is shaking, and tears are still pricking his eyes, and he grips Rin so hard that his fingers go numb, and he tries his best but he just can’t stay awake. No matter how paranoid his brain is trying to be, he knows that Minato-sensei isn’t really a threat, and he can’t stop himself from passing out still craddling Rin and her sloppily applied seals.
-the next time they wake up they’re both in a hosiptal, beds right next to one another. Kakashi is stand watch over them, sitting in the sil of the only window in the room, and Rin can’t help but be touched, because it’s never been a secret how much kakahsi hates hospitals.
-Rin opens her mouth to thank him at the same time Obito opens his mouth to make fun of him, but Kakashi’s gone as soon as he realizes they’re awake, before either of them can say anything to him.
-Things are...awkward between the two of them then, in a way they hadn’t been probably ever. The terrible tension they’ve had for the past few months has snapped and disappeared, but it’s been replaced by the awful fact that they’ve both done something they’ll never be able to undo.
-Rin breaks out of it first, overcome by her worry over obito. She clammers into his bed and aggressively checks him over to make sure he was okay. She starts to heal whatever surface level wounds he has, but she’s barely got a drop of chakra in her, and Obito holds her hands firmly to stop her before she passes out from chakra exhaustion.
-”You were right.” Obito chokes out, because she was, she knew that he’d regret killing someone- hell, they both knew it! but she started babying him and he just got so so so mad that he wanted to do it just to prove that he could, but she was right and now he didn’t know what to do.
-Rin collapses onto him, shifting around just enough to make their position comfortable as they cuddle/clutch onto each other and desprately convince themselves that they’ll be okay.
-She wants to help him, but she doesn’t know how to. She never really let herself process her own kills- had pushed the terrible feelings of it to the back of her brain and focused on helping Obito, doing it for his good. But she failed, and now there they were, and without the distraction the force of her deeds hit her full force.
-So there they are, clutching at each other in a too-small hospital bed and sobbing and apologizing and trying to comfort each other. Thankfully, Kakashi returns with Minato and Kushina in tow.
-Between the two of them (Kakahsi goes back to awkwardly standing guard, lost as to how else he could help) and their years of Shinobi conditioning and sensei-mandated training on how to walk gennin through traumatizing milestones, they manage to sort the two of them.
-Mostly. THey only get more codependant after this, and they kinda loose their shit when kakashi gets his first kill and then just doesn’t tell them for a month to avoid this exact reaction, but hey. it’s team 7, and it’s as good as they’ll get, and they wouldn’t want it any other way.