#the third hokage does nothing for kakashi even when he learns that danzo just tried to have kakashi killed

[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

[chaotetothecore]

Bijuu-nin AU [海深 外伝]

He is tired. He’s been tired for so long, and he thought a nap would help. Is he less tired now? More awake, more aware? Probably not. He’s not sure what went wrong. He fell asleep, and now he’s trapped. The one he’s bound to (Guard or Cellmate?) feels like lightning, but it doesn’t have the fluidity to be truly safe with him. He is tired. He is also scared.

He doesn’t want to be here, with a seal that sends waves of pain so frequently, with a child(?) that’s as scared as he is, and maybe more confused.

Obito is small, the way so many of the veteran shinobi ambling through the streets are small. The Village was meant to protect them, Obito thinks, Obito is sure he’s heard. It’s not like his memory goes back far enough to know the truth. To know if there are more children who came back than before. To know if Hashirama was not simply a clan head who wanted more.

What does Hokage even mean if a Hokage can’t stop this?

He looks at his small hands and swallows.

He’s sitting at the memorial stone, has been reading and rereading the same names (really just the one) since before dawn. Shisui (so small, so little, so deadly fast and smart) had stopped by not long after, dropped off a bento bearing all the hallmarks of Mikoto’s cooking. He, Shisui, had cocked a head at Obito, like the birds who signed his back. He, Obito, had felt nothing, felt like a small animal. He, Obito, was grateful when Shisui left. Even if it still felt like nothing but a yawning cavern opening beneath his feet but leaving him standing.

His hands are trembling, chopsticks laid across the open bento at his side. He’s barely picked at it, but he hasn’t felt hungry (liar) since he woke up after Kannabi Bridge.

He wonders if he should go visit Rin at work, at the hospital. He catches a whiff of antiseptic blowing on the wind and swallows, clenching and unclenching his (bloody, clean) fists. That’s right, he doesn’t need to go there. Rin said she would pick him up for dinner later. He’d be late otherwise. He’s always late.

He reads the name(s) on the stone again. He looks at small hands. His hands were tiny.

If Village couldn’t save children, then what were they there for?

SUMMARY: Kannabi Bridge. Obito (13/14) isn’t fast enough to save Kakashi (9/10). As per flipped canon, Kakashi is (rightfully) presumed to have been crushed to death (although none of Team Minato actually see him dead/dying). Kiri-nin pick up Kakashi, planning to use him as leverage (maybe just for Madara’s Sanbi bomb). - 1 year later, Kakashi has realized he’s a bomb and manages to successfully escape Kirigakure. He avoids Konoha, because he was the Yellow Flash’s apprentice and he knows where must be the most dangerous place for him to be. (He’s heard things, too, and councilman Shimura Danzou just keeps coming up.) He avoids the Konoha-nin too. - 3 years later, Kakashi (13/14) has mainly stuck to civilian areas and wild lands, though he’s kept an ear to the shinobi ground (so to speak, sometimes literally). At some point, he began regular work as a shiphand on the cargos running between far North and far South. - Due to the poorly designed seal (Madara may see intricate seals but he can’t replicate this and Zetsu was never inclined to study the art) he and Isobu swing from not hearing each other at all, to hearing the other too much too closely too loud. When Madara (who has other plans in motion) begins a chase on the Sanbi, it takes a full year. Only a year. Madara tries to break the seal, pull out the Sanbi, but only manages to fuck with the seal until it’s worse than it was. The faulty seal blends Kakashi and Isobu’s personalities into a single entity, a bijuu-ghost barely held to their corpse by an inert bomb seal. - Now Kaibuka [海深] (14/15 give or take a super long time), they’re perpetually youthful~~ until they can manage to ditch the fleshsuit. (They can’t quite figure it out yet, bc whenever they’re hurt too much like whatever hurt their eye they automatically heal from it.) Due to the blending, their memories have been mixed and crushed up together, so that even many of their memories of Isobu have been altered by their memories of Kakashi. - They wander the Nations once more, this time stealthily hopping around Ninja areas as much as they poke around Civilian areas. They make a (rather comfy, thank you) nest in the remains of what could only be Uzushiogakure. They primarily avoid Konoha (something, something, dangerous? they’re not sure anymore. it’s all a little fuzzy), though they occasionally swing through Land of Fire. They go through Kiri more than there. - Back at Konoha: The rest of Team Minato has managed to survive both the Second and Third NWWs. Obito is on the Hokage succession track (determined to become the leader that can end wars before they begin), and Danzo is too pressed for space to take out anyone, least of all Shisui. Madara attacks, but is repelled by greater forces. Kushina survives with a healthy little Naruto to learn sealing at her knee, and Minato looks into who exactly gave the order for the Uchiha to stay entirely away from the fighting. The Hatake Home and Properties have been placed under the ownership of the Civilian Branch, and the sensitive scrolls (including Pakkun +) have been closed away.

(A/N: That election, huh?~~~ I’ve had this sitting since May of last year, so you know it’s been marinating. *pads off to down some celebratory brandy* If you didn’t catch it, that is Isobu narrating at the top, and Kakashi is both Lightning and Water inclined. I say inclined, bc I doubt that people will fit squarely into the predetermined holes in any system. Obito is both older than Kakashi and coming from a different background, so his reaction to this trauma is a bit different from Kakashi’s. Namely, Obito is disillusioned with the system. He’s understanding now that things in the Village were never as good [or righteous] as he thought they were.)

#fanfic ideas #naruto #naruto au #alternate universe #bijuu-nin au #snippet #obito #kakashi #sanbi #isobu #jinchuriki