#but minato's a soldier. he isn't hobbled by the third hokage's cowardice and lingering affection

[panharmonium]

i never really got over hearing danzo say this.  

the fact that he specifically targets kakashi because kakashi has no one to protect him.  because kakashi doesn’t have the power of the uchiha clan to back him up, because he doesn’t have any parents to take care of him, because he doesn’t have any teachers to protect him, because he doesn’t have anyone who will ask inconvenient questions or kick up a fuss when he “accidentally” turns up dead.  danzo is so wicked and dishonorable that he won’t even confront the uchiha directly to steal their hereditary jutsu - the uchiha are too risky for him to attack; they’re a powerful community and there’s strength in their numbers, but kakashi - kakashi is the only person possessing a sharingan who isn’t afforded the protection of that community.  he’s a vulnerable teenager - not because he’s weak (even danzo isn’t foolish enough to look at kakashi and call him “weak”), but because he’s alone.  he has no adults to take care of him, no family community to rally around him.  he’s easy prey, in danzo’s eyes.

what cowardice, to go after a child like that.  

#naruto #pan watches naruto #* #there is so much about this that makes me lose it like #the way grown-up!kakashi is so determined to be the adult protector he never had #for other kids who have no one #the way kakashi gets so much flak from sasuke about having the sharingan and not being an uchiha #when that exact situation is what made danzo target teenage kakashi in the uchiha's place #and just - the way things would have been so different if either minato or sakumo had survived #the third hokage does nothing for kakashi even when he learns that danzo just tried to have kakashi killed #this would NEVER have flown if either of kakashi's real grown-ups were alive #first of all if sakumo were alive danzo wouldn't have dared to come anywhere near kakashi in the first place #i fully believe hatake sakumo could have wiped danzo off the face of the earth in two seconds flat #if the legendary sannin 'paled in comparison' to sakumo then danzo is like. a bug. #and second of all minato would have murdered danzo on the spot #not out of an abundance of protectiveness; minato knows kakashi can handle himself #but minato's a soldier. he isn't hobbled by the third hokage's cowardice and lingering affection #he would never allow himself to be repeatedly undermined by a subordinate like that #if he found out that danzo collaborated with orochimaru and tried to have an innocent teenager assassinated #danzo would have been arrested and executed and that would have been it #if only kakashi had had a grown-up who *actually* cared about him as opposed to the third hokage's performance of affection #but he didn't #and that's what makes him so determined to BE that grown-up for his own kids