pls ignore if you're not up to it but i'm having an... awful, awful day. do you have any team 8 headcanons you feel like sharing?
- Kurenai was not expecting to get a genin team. She’s a new jounin. She’s an active jounin. Someone has clearly made a grave mistake.
- Sarutobi is unfortunately very certain that he did not, in fact, do anything of the sort.
- She walks in to meet her team, opens the door to Kiba yelling at Shino, who’s glaring back as Hinata stares longingly at Naruto, and nearly walks right back out.
- In retrospect, maybe letting Anko get her drunk so she would spill all of her troubles was a Mistake.
- When Kiba, Shino, and Hinata turn up for training the next morning, they’re not met by their kind, slightly bewildered teacher, but by a madwoman with a bloodthirsty grin who claims she has their teacher tied to her headboard.
- (This is not true. Anko is usually the one getting tied up. Not that Anko is going to tell the brats that. Well. At least not on purpose.)
- It turns out fine, there’s really no need for Kurenai to turn that particular color, the kids did great and they’re so much better at dodging now.
- Compared to Anko’s torture training, Team 8′s first C-rank is a breeze.
- Since they’re all clan children, and children of Clan Heads, there’s not a lot of basics Kurenai really needs to get into. She’s petty enough to want to rub that fact in Kakashi’s face, but tactful enough that she doesn’t.
- Anko keeps turning up at their training ground, to the point where Kiba has gotten fantastic about picking up unfamiliar scents the moment they come into range. Kurenai doesn’t know whether to be proud or exasperated.
- Hinata comes to training one day shaking and bruised from a match with her father. It’s entirely casual, but Kiba just keeps talking to her as they leave, tells her stories about pranking people with Naruto that get her so caught up that she doesn’t realize they’re headed for the Inuzuka compound until they’re in Tsume’s kitchen with tea and snacks.
- (Kurenai starts telling Hiashi that she’s been giving Hinata special kunoichi lessons that run so late Hinata just sleeps over. Hiashi never questions it, and Hinata splits her time between the Aburame and the Inuzuka.)
- Shino asks her to teach him flower arranging. Hinata’s good at it, and enjoys it, and Shino likes making edible works of art for his bugs to entertain themselves in.
- Anko crashes an Academy lesson on kunoichi skills, because of course she does, and then flees to Kurenai in horror over the fact that some idiot separated the classes. The boys never got those lessons, and that’s a recipe for future disaster.
- Shino and Kiba have more seduction skills than any of their male classmates put together, and are entirely proud of it.
- Kurenai spends so much time panicking over teaching them wrong, or ruining their careers, or turning them off shinobi work forever, that she wakes up one morning and is utterly astonished to find that...they’re actually not terrible.
- They’re really not terrible, and when did that even happen?
- (Kakashi’s team is a train wreck. Sure, she’s still trying to get Hinata to make eye contact, Shino to stop being quite so tense, and Kiba to be a little quieter, but at least she’s made quantifiable progress. Kakashi, genius and career jounin, has not.)
- Anko laughs when she says as much, and promises that she’s putting all of her money on Team 8 when the Chuunin Exams roll around.
