So.found Out A More Accurate Size Of Eight Year Oldstheir So Small???? So Redo Of My Drawing For @obviouslyshys

So….found out a more accurate size of eight year olds…their so small???? So redo of my drawing for @obviouslyshy’s Naruto au

Don’t mind that it was drawn on scrap a paper so you can see bugs bleeding through the sheet oops

read the fic here!! https://href.li/http://archiveofourown.org/works/46935640

It takes a village to kill a child

Hatake Sakumo does not raise Kakashi. A kunai tucked into too-small hands, a house empty more often than full, and a bloody goodbye, do not a father make. 

Namikaze Minato does not raise Kakashi. Attention split thrice, then thrice more, a commander’s orders, and a teacher’s critique do not a father make. 

Konohagakure does not raise Kakashi. They shelter and house him, but harsh whispers, scornful gazes and unfair treatment do not a home make. 

Kakashi is not raised by any hand, for in perhaps all the small and large ways that matter he is grown and buried too soon. If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes one to kill them as well.

Kakashi is raised by war. By a dozen different commander’s scorn and harsh orders. By a hundred enemy shinobi. By the sharp betrayal of hidden traitors and the chaos of all out battle. War raises and kills him before he is 12, and when peace does arrive, it arrives as a parent’s new partner– untrusted and untested. 

Kakashi is given no time to take the measure of this new parent before war returns to reassure their lost child that they haven’t left using the face of the Kyuubi. The small village that might have tried to challenge the claim of war crumbles and he finds himself uncertain and adrift. War is there to console him like any good parent. Peace is accepted because for all its arrival, war is still there and it still needs Kakashi. The shadows become his new siblings and together they play and argue and grow until it is hard to tell who the adopted child is. 

Kakashi emerges into the lauded planes of adulthood, dripping in the red of his parent and wrapped in a cloak of his sibling’s weave. He stands in the village that in some lifetime might have raised him, and knows in his bones that he is allowed only for who raised him, the hammer of war in his head, the hope of ill-fitting peace in his chest, and the shadows that he joins as though a part of them.

Hatake Kakashi is the beloved child of war and peace and shadows who stands in a crumbling village, tearing at the seams, screaming that no other might find in him family. Screams and bleeds himself near dry in chakra and blood and dreams, and when the village that kills him asks that he might lead, he bows his head and accepts the hat. 

And in the fall out of another war, another family reunion, he promises ‘no more’. He promises that his Konoha shall see all her children raised by parents and guardians and love, and that never again will he look down into the eyes of a child and see a new sibling staring back.

i recently made a post about coincidentally knowing a few people who first found weird al through their dads so i thought i'd make a silly poll!! (thank you @milfweirdal for the suggestion :D)

what if the reason Minato shoved Kakashi into anbu was because he didn't trust him anymore. As Hokage he'd be stretched thin, but with Kakashi in anbu he'd be able to keep an eye on him. He wasn't there when Obito died, but it seemed like a completely avoidable incident and Kakashi came out with a sharingan from the ordeal. Kakashi killed Rin, that's a fact, but he keeps saying that she jumped in front of his attack and that sounds like a lie to Minato's ears, why would she do that. Kakashi is his student, and his responsibility, so Minato makes him join anbu to keep him where he can see him.

old grudges

Bwah