can I get more gender fluid team kakashi please?
^-^ sure thing! quick reminder that I’m not genderfluid (still kinda questioning but I’m currently identifying as a demi-girl), so if I say something Problamatic please call me on it!
-As I see it; Naruto switches between ‘he/him’ and ‘she/her’ pronouns fairly often, and it is not a subtle change so it’s usually pretty easy to follow; it only gets tricky when Naruto uses ‘they/them’ pronouns for a day or two, less because he identifes with ‘they/them’ and more because it sometimes takes him a bit to figure out what pronouns to go by. Sakura is usually she/her and is fairly often they/them, only occasionally feeling more ‘he/him’, but didn’t know that ‘they/them’ was an...option, for a while, and is only really overtly feminine when she’s ‘she/her’, so people (including her sometimes) think they’re ‘he/him’ when they aren’t. Sasuke is a mess, because he never feels right in his own skin for reasons besides dysphoria, and it takes him the longest by far to realize he’s genderfluid. He’s never really been ‘she/her’, and spends most of his time switching between a handful of nonbinary-pronouns- they/them/, xe/xir- and sometimes he/him, but doesn’t know that nonbinary identities....exist, much less the names of them, and has a lot of baggage attached to being the ‘last son of the Uchiha’ and ‘Itachi’s little brother’, so basically he’s got a lot of issues to address before he can even realized much less acknowledge his genderfluidity. -Naruto’s the only one completely comfortable with his identity. Everyone hated her anyway, so it’s not like anyone cared to ‘correct him’ for wearing ‘girls’ clothing or buying make up or anything. Like most things for her as a child, its just something she liked doing so she did with no more thought put into it.
-(Pronouns were both an issue and a non-issue; while he has fluid pronoun preferences, he rarely expresses or acknowledges them. After-all, whatever discomfort he gets from being misgendered, it’s hard to notice in the relief of being gendered at all, instead of just being an ‘it’.)
-Naruto’s team knows about him- or her, as it is sometimes, though ‘she/her’ pronouns aren’t something any of them consider trying for a few months. Sakura does her makeup when she asks them to, and Sasuke occasionally points out things that are her ‘style’, and eventually Naruto asks Kakashi to help her with sustaining her ‘transformation jutsu’ more casually and he agrees.
-Sakura is like....uber repressed. She was raised civilian, brought up to be a perfect little house-wife as soon as she got over her silly shinobi phase. It was odd, growing up; sometimes, she loved playing the part of a perfect daughter, and sometimes it was kind of annoying but not worth fighting, and occasionally it had him sitting on his hands so that he didn’t scratch holes in his skin and biting his lips bloody so he didn’t say something decidedly unladylike.
-Sakura knows about trans people, mostly because of her lowkey-transphobic parents, so he spends a signifigant amount of time thinking he’s a transboy. She waits eagerly to be a shinobi so her parents didn’t legally own her anymore (the state did) and keeps it up for while because she doesn’t know how Kakashi and Sasuke are going to react, one concering as an authority figure and the other concerning as a love prospect.
-She cuts her hair in the chunnin exam though, and it’s devastating to a part of him but so freeing to another, so he kinda just decides ‘go big or go home’ and starts wearing more boyish/baggy clothes and less make up- claiming it’s for practical training reasons.
-It works, for a little while, and Naruto is thankfully the only one who seems to have taken any notice- she doesn’t know how, but out of the three of them he’s the one that it doesn’t matter if he notices. But then, to their horror, Sakrua realizes that she has the same problem in boys clothes; he likes it sometimes, and doesn’t really care other times, and hates it with enough passion to set herself on fire on occasion.
-She doesn’t know what that means, but she does know that if she doesn’t put on something cuter soon she’s going to push Sasuke into a river. Naruto catches her eye, and he gives her a weird look, but while they’re setting up tents he gives her a change of clothes he brought in case he’d want to wear them. They’re fucking ugly, colors terribly bright, but her hair is already fucking pink and she’s desprate in a weird way so she just thanks him and changes, and Sasuke and Kakashi give her weird looks but don’t say anything.
-Along with all of xir aforementioned issues, Sasuke has a weird relationship with makeup. Xe hates it on Xemself- hates things on xir face in general- but xe likes doing makeup, like artistically, so xe’ll do Sakura and Naruto’s fairly often.
-I want to say more about xem cause I said basically nothing but this got long and I have to go do something so I guess thats that on that