Silly, early Konoha lore and oc things drawn while thinking about this post
!!! early konoha my beloved !!! I have so many thoughts ab it, I want to write a fic that's just silly early Konoha things viewed from the perspective of the less important clan members and their everyday lives. I'm aware the audience for that is incredibly small but I have too much fun just thinking ab it to really care!
Ichigo remains the only naruto oc Ive ever actually written for (in one step three steps), tho Haruka has been mentioned in multiple fics of mine now just bc she fills the role of Tobirama + Hashirama's blood aunt that I needed to be filled in my "Kakashi interacts with Tobirama w the knowledge that they are directly related" fics, of which there are now multiple
but yeah, take some silly art and lore comics !! I had fun while making these and will now probably put all these ocs on a shelf where I will not touch them for some more months
Early Konoha oc art pt. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Offshoot of my "team Ro time travels to the founders era" post because @prinzgnomeovonchaos infected me with brain rot in the notes
So buckle in baby it's time for
Sakumo and babyKashi time traveling to the warring states ✨️
So first thing to get out of the way; Modern Hatake's and warring states era Hatake's do not hold up to the same standards.
The Hatake's during the states were a very small clan with a very big reputation. Hailing from Iron, they were an almost famous wild clan even all the way in fire country. Distantly related to the Inuzuka's but leaning more towards wolves than dogs.
They had a proper kekkei genkai and everything, unnaturally fast and strong, often born with some form of enhanced senses— be it smell, sight, taste, or even touch. Their white chakra fed into it, and they'd feed their chakra with diets of raw meat and the occasional light cannibalism during some special clan celebrations and rituals.
Unfortunatley Sakumo knows very little about the above because he was very young when his clan was pretty much all wiped out. He was raised by the only other survivor, his grandmother, who was pretty young herself when the clan got wiped, and unfortunatley was never all too concious of many of the rituals and traditions of her clan until it was too late.
Sakumo grew up to village standards and was mostly declawed because of it, and Kakashi is only doubly so. And with that dulling of all the different traditions and specific diets also came the slow fading of their bloodline limit, which was already pretty subtle if you didn't know what you're looking for.
Anyways moving on, and if you want more details for my headcanons ab warring states Hatake's vs modern standard Hatake's look at my other time travel post bc I talk ab it more there.
So Kakashi is like 6 (holy shit he's a BABY baby)
Google keeps giving me conflicting numbers for Sakumo's age at his death so we're just gonna shrug and say he's in his early 30's.
Then for the founders;
Madara (23)
Hashirama (23)
Izuna (19)
Tobirama (18)
Sakumo is staring at these guys going through it bc they are BABIES to him. And like look, he's used to working with or even occasionally under people much younger than him, but like. Oh man that's the shodai hokage. And he's like a toddler.
(He's a 23 year old man but Sakumo is kind of having a crisis so he can't register that)
So like. All the founders have major daddy issues, right? Like we can all agree that's plausible? I'm so sorry I just think it'd be *really fucking funny* if they look at Sakumo and just kinda. Yeah.
You know what I mean.
Anyways;
No idea how they got there!! This is set maybe a week before Sakumo offed himself but now he can't kill himself bc that'd mean abandoning Kakashi to the fucking warring states.
Kakashi fits the warring states standards alarmingly well actually. Honestly I think even for that time period he's still scarily young to be on the field. People are giving Sakumo looks like 'it's so hard what we've been forced to do to our children, the battles we've pushed them into, the things they've seen and done all too young'
Sakumo is going *hrrg.* and having a good long look in the mirror actually. Proper crisis, lots of guilt, Kakashi should not be out in the field this young and at least before he was mostly getting baby missions but now they're stranded in time and keep running head first into trouble.
I want Izuna and Kakashi to fight and even though Kakashi absoloutley should NOT win that battle I want him to win just so that Madara and Tobirama can make fun of him for losing to an actual child
Izuna is mortified he wants that brat DEAD
Uhh I have some more but I'm at work and actually hit post too early on this post so I had to come back to rush add all these edits bc I meant for it to stay a draft I could keep adding too later. So I'll just come add more later fr
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hatake Sakumo & Uzumaki Kushina, Hatake Kakashi's Mother/Hatake Sakumo
Characters: Hatake Sakumo, Uzumaki Kushina, Original Female Character(s), Inuzuka Mako (OC)
She squeezed her eyes shut, and that should not be done in a battlefield, should not be done when fighting but she needed to. The colors of the forest went black, and she inhaled deep, forcing herself to relax, to feel. The energy of the world swirled around her seal, and she knew that, she knew how it moved and shifted.
Uzumaki’s understood chakra, she understood chakra; she had to.
(or: sakumo adopts a child by force.)
what if sakumo was still kushina’s sensei, what then
I wanted to do something for my favorite ninja's birthday, so I decided to post the first chapter of my upcoming longfic wip. Its same age, sweet to angst to HEA. Lots of drama etc. Thw tags will be updated as I go, and I'll hopefully start posting more in December.
Sakuraguri
'Cherry blossom hunting.'
Chapter one
Happy Birthday
It's Kakashi's fifth birthday. As a Hatake, it is the most important birthday. He thinks its the most important day in his life. He's not wrong.
Comfort fics? oh you mean the same list of fics in my Comfort Tag? That Is about the same premise and the same scenario just a little to the left. That ive read all before and don’t remember till halfway through or when You already hit Kudos pops up and you have bookmark on it and yeah.
-The Hatake were Konoha’s most knowledgeable masters of earth release techniques.
-Regardless of their affinity, all Hatake children would learn the principles of earth techniques. If not to fight then to help out in the fields in sowing and harvesting seasons which was done with clan jutsu.
-Many of the clan jutsu (now lost) focused on ways to improve sowing, harvesting, the defense of farmland, and the creation of irrigation channels and rice paddies.
-The Hatake were a peasant shinobi clan. They themselves came from peasants and would serve and take contracts from other peasants and low-born people. Very rarely if at all did they take contracts from nobles. In fact, they often had quite a tense relationship with the nobility as the upper class didn’t like that the Hatake were famed amongst the peasantry and were rather strong. There was fears that they would encourage or incite other peasants to rebel or take up arms.
-The Hatake clan was extremely communal with the clan head responsible for the health and wellbeing of the whole clan. The entire clan would regularly eat and share things together which could get wild when the clan population once peaked at nearly two hundred members a century or two ago.
-In theme with good harvest vs poor harvests/famine in farming peoples, in the older tradition, the Hatake were generally of the opinion that a healthy person was one that had body fat on them. If they didn’t, then something was wrong and the clan wasn’t supporting them enough or the clan was going through some difficult times. What the ‘ideal’ was could be contextual dependent on the person, the season, the state of the clan, who the clan member was and what they did, general situation etc. If the clan was doing well in terms of good harvest and general wellbeing, this should be reflected in the body of the clan head (though this could also depend on whether they themselves were active shinobi, retired, non-shinobi). But for one example, in the eyes of the clan, a healthy Hatake shinobi would be muscled, fit, and have some padding. The Hatake therefore had a large range of body types.
-But this also means that Kakashi with his lithe, muscled body and zero body fat to speak of would worry his clan members if they were still around and the first thing they’d do is sit him down and order him to eat properly.
-According to tradition, families wouldn’t have separate bedrooms but slept together (which often included their most trusted hounds) in the central room beside the sunken hearth. Very little privacy in the farmhouse.
-A lot of this changed and traditions were left behind when the Hatake joined Konoha and tried to integrate with the ‘noble’ shinobi clans. Their origins as a peasant farming clan was looked down upon and came to be a source of embarrassment for many of the younger generation.
