SymbolicFailure
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“I challenge you to kiss me,” he says.
It’s out of his mouth before he can really think about it, which is something he only rarely experiences and only when standing in front of Gai. It’s like his brain shortcuts to places he didn’t even know existed before he came into contact with expressive eyebrows, gleaming eyes and a determined grin.
A grin that slips slowly off Gai’s face now. His eyes grow huge, as if to make up for it. “What.”
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Kakashi and Gai kiss a lot over the years.
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19 Aug 2026
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Admittedly, laying flat on your back for days at a time isn't very intimidating, but everyone else in the cell at least looks baseline human. Kisame should be at the bottom of the list of people to bother, if one was making a list.
But the Leaf ninja creeps closer.
And closer.
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18 Aug 2026
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Curious about the title? Look here: https://end-otw-racism.tumblr.com/post/716978822501875712/fandom-against-racism-a-manifesto
They couldn’t do this to him, saddle him with dead last Naruto, some pink-haired civilian-born girl, and most especially definitely not with this white-haired, porn-reading, lazy clanless no-name JOKE of a jounin sensei.
or,
What if Kakashi wasn't famous? A non-massacre AU idea that started as crack and abruptly grew a plot. Multi-POV, around two per chapter.
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16 Aug 2026
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In the perfect world, Hatake Kakashi doesn't exist.
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05 Aug 2026
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He warned them. Repeatedly. Kakashi didn’t want a genin team. Kakashi had no idea of what to do with a genin team. He was self-aware enough to know he wasn’t quite right in the head. He should not be trusted with a bunch of children.
But did the Sandaime hear him? No, because the Sandaime wasn’t Minato-sensei and the old man never listened to him. And he went ahead with the brilliant idea of saddling him with his dead sensei’s son, Itachi’s little brother, and a kunoichi who was so much a cannon fodder that she had a literal target on her bright red dress.
He would not be blamed for the shitshow that was about to start.
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Kakashi only knows how to teach three things: survival, assassination, and pretending to be normal. Good thing that's exactly what his cute little genins need to learn. And if they also learned how to be a family in the process, well, that's just a bonus.
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31 Jul 2026