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Sasuke goes from bleeding out next to his dumbass best friend to being twelve years old again.
Pretending to have a crush on Naruto is mostly an accident.
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05 Sep 2026
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Iruka's not entirely sure what about him sitting on Kakashi and wrenching his arm into a painful hold to keep him still until the ANBU hiding outside the window could call in a medic made a good impression, but Kakashi seems to have decided, from that day forward, that they were friends, then that they might be something more.
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During Naruto's travels with Jiraiya, Iruka and Kakashi gradually grow closer, thanks to Iruka hiding in the hospital to do paperwork undisturbed. Village politics rear their head during a conversation with Tsunade about Iruka's rank as a "mere" chuunin Academy instructor.
Or: In which Iruka argues convincingly for the value of Konoha embracing many, varied, and different ways of being a shinobi.
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- Part 6 of We Help Us (Gift Fic)
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04 Sep 2026
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Meet me at the intersection by lildraws (azra899), tucuxi
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
01 Dec 2024
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Umino Iruka regarded the man standing before his shop counter with what was probably poorly-veiled irritation.
"Yes, thank you," he said. "I know how a triple-layered chakra lock works."
Long years of experience kept Iruka's tone even: losing his temper meant losing customers, even if there weren't very many people in Konoha who did what he did.
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The canon-divergent au in which Iruka graduates the academy, does 3 D-rank missions, and then retires, because his leg was badly crushed in the kyuubi attack—so he re-trains as a locksmith and makes chakra-manipulated locks.
A story about systemic structural power imbalances between shinobi and civilians and the various ways in which expectations of physical strength and implicit ableism are detrimental to community trust. In which Iruka finds himself stuck between worlds, all because Sharingan Kakashi demanded the impossible, and Iruka made him a quadruple-layered chakra lock.
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04 Sep 2026
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Kakashi looks at him expectantly and it’s only then that Iruka realizes he actually has to do something since Kakashi agreed to let him try this. He goes slowly, hoping that his deliberate movements come across as confidence and not what they actually are.
It's probably best for Kakashi to stay where he is on the couch, so Iruka goes around the back of it to stand behind him. Iruka starts to move his hands where he needs to. Hesitates. Tries again. Gets a little closer. Still can't.
“Can I … I need to, uhm — is it alright if I touch you?”
or, what started as iruka offering to try relieving the stress of the sharingan for kakashi leads to the two of them spending unprecedented amounts of time together. and now ...
well, iruka isn't quite sure what they are now.
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04 Sep 2026
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Occasional shinobi wars and giant demon attacks aside, living in Konoha relatively peacefully as a civilian isn’t too hard.
Until a shinobi who is debatably more of a feral dog than a human takes a liking to you.
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03 Sep 2026