Cherry sunshine

Kushina: well we did die and—

That’s actually so yummy

I wonder if the other villages have their own spirits or if konoha has Naruto because of Hashirama

Like bro created life with his trees all the time, why not make him create a spirit from the natural chakra of the hashirama trees around konoha imbued with all the ideals he founded the village with.

He essentially acts as The Advisor to every hokage

Hashirama found a good friend and a like mind in Naruto, while tobirama found a bit more than that 👀

Since he died, Naruto was the one to guide Hiruzen on how to be hokage and essentially treated him a beloved student.

As a result, hiruzen isn’t quite so attached/ blind to Danzo.

Whether he does anything about it or Naruto is hissing and spitting at him the whole time as root grows and the massacre happens is another question entirely.

I think he’d love Minato bc of him perfecting Hiraishin (and also be the one to tell sarutobi to give the kid tobiramas notes)

Also, freak that he is, Minato would so be like OMG THE SECOND HOKAGE SKETCHED YOU IN HIS NOTES

But then Tsunade gets the surprise of her lifeeeee if Hiruzen still dies to Orochimaru bc she knew her grand uncle was in a relationship but never knew who with.

A spirit that’s only tangible and perceptible to the hokage apparently.

Figures.

Also Naruto finding love again in kakashi bc bro has a type

"If they try to hurt you just call on me. I know how to throw a punch but I can take it too. You dont have to worry".

Naruto ends his words with a toothy smile that hid the heaviness he felt at the thought of anyone hurting his husband.

He expects Sasuke to return it with a raised eyebrow. Perhaps even argue that it wasnt necessary. That he's more than capable of looking out for himself. Naruto is prepared for it.

What he did not expect was for Sasuke to reach out to cup his cheek. Thumb grazing the edge of his lips. A fierceness in his eyes that stalled Naruto's own features.

"They will never touch you", Sasukes words come out as a whisper. But with it an unspoken solemn vow. As solid as oak in a storm. As sincere as a secret spoken in prayer.

It takes a second for Naruto to catch his breath.

"You can't promise that," Naruto whispers back. Not a challenge. A plea.

Sasukes other hand reaches forward to cup his other cheek and with a firm grip from both, as if a terror shook him at the thought that Naruto might pull away, Sasuke surges forward to meet his husband's lips with his. It would be more accurate to say Sasuke inhaled him in like a dying man gasping for a final breath. Lips moving desperately as if to taste Naruto was holy. A covetted touch that his wretched soul was never meant to to reach.

Naruto was a simpler soul. Incandescent joy. That was enough to describe what he felt.

They parted only because breathing was necessary.

But the sudden distance felt too great for Sasuke to bear. He pulled his lover into his arms. Narutos head nestled at the crook of his neck. A palm buried in golden threads and another arm around the others waist.

"They can try", this time Sasuke did not utter his words quietly. He proclaimed the threat into existence. Like a spell he dared anyone to break.

Its only when Sasuke feels something warm and wet drop onto his shoulder does he realize Naruto was crying.

"Naruto-", he starts. Worried that he had said something wrong. But before he could pull away Naruto's arms wrap around him in a vice.

"No, please," Naruto's words come out a choked shudder, "just stay here a little longer".

Sasuke allows himself to melt into his lovers hold though he keeps his own just as firm.

Platonic sexual they don’t care as long as they get clear precise orders and they don’t have to do the hard thinking

Naruto is so on board with this it’s funny the anbu that have had a particularly hard mission get to hide under the hokage desk and spend there time with Naruto’s hand on the back of there neck

Naruto gives his anbu a seal so they can go inside his house any time they need too

Just a anbu squad dragging one of their members too Naruto cause they have been spiraling

Anbu that have had missions gone wrong begging to be punished

Kakashi right after giving the hat to Naruto digging out his old hound mask and eagerly joining anbu

I love and adore this with all my being

And these poor ANBU having a few hokage in a row that aren’t rly made for that kinda thing. The orders are enough for most, but almost all of them have an itch that just isn’t being scratched.

There’s Tsunade who is vaguely aware of the ANBU culture but discourages it because she thinks it’s an unhealthy way for shinobi to cope with their lives and decisions. And while she’s not wrong she kinda views it as a thing broken shinobi do / thinks it’s something to be pitied. She gives the orders but she’s bi more personal with them than any other general forces shinobi. Sometimes, if it’s a really bad missions she allows a little smidge of it where they can kneel throughout the report or bow their heads while reporting. But outside of that, she’s like nah stand up and look me in the eye I won’t enable this.

Kakashi understands the culture bone deep but a lot of the ANBU still consider him one of theirs. They remember when he was 14 and hanging off of Minato’s every order so he didn’t have to think about his grief. Then the same with Hiruzen. They know him as another dog with a leash that needs to be held, not someone willing to bypass the leash and go for the scruff. Kakashi does his best but it’s deeply uncomfortable for him to have that kind of control off the battlefield. He’s like “you can kneel and bow your head, I understand that. Just…I can’t do more.” Bros way too far on the other end of control for that to come naturally and ANBU are all to good at reading people to fall for any acts he could put on. If they went to him needing something and they saw him pretend it’d make things 100x worse.

Naruto tho? He loves it. He wanted people to see him his whole life and now he has the power to force them to. But his ANBU don’t need his power. They need him.

His thigh to rest their head on as the kneel under his desk.

His hands loosely wrapped around their exposed throat.

His bedroom to crawl into after a mission gone wrong so he can show them just how precious and loved they are.

(I honestly can’t see Naruto punishing people for their mission failures outright even if it is for kinky reasons. I think he’d twist it so they’re being punished for thinking badly of themselves after the failure or something like that instead. Or maybe it’d be like immediate unconditional forgiveness on his part and making it clear the punishment part is just for them which has made more than one person weep. Like them making up for the failure by being useful another way)

KAKASHI WOULD. HE SO WOULD.

Kakashi: *Angry wolf growl*

Akane: Oh yeah? I can do that too *the most terrifying growl you've ever heard*

Kakashi a little scared and maybe turned on: Holy shit

Tenzo in the background while eating a cup of instant noodles: *terrified slurp*

Dying to know the scenario you pictured with this bc I can think of so many

Like some Kurama clan member that went missing nin and managed to drive enough retrieval squads mad with genjutsu that the third hokage stopped sending people…until now.

But Akane is Uzumaki so the genjutsu can’t touch him and the missing nin is like oh shittttttt. I can’t survive a physical fight against that. So instead they trap Kakashi and Tenzo and make them both fight Akane. Kakashi is essentially reduced to his base Hatake Wolf instincts and set loose while the co trip over Tenzo is a bit weaker since he doesn’t have the convenient “dog wants to follow order” hindbrain.

It’s enough for Akane to get Tenzo out of the fight relatively quick, but Kakashi is more of an issue.

But then Kakashi growls at him and Akane is like oh wait this might work and growls back like an ancient eldritch monster.

Kakashi immediately backs down. He’s stuck in the wolf hindbrain. He recognizes a bigger badder predator when he sees one. Time for appeasement behaviors. He whines and shows his throat.

Tenzo uses the distraction to knock out the genjutsu user, Kakashi snaps out of it, and he’s barely repressing a blush bc oh he just submitted to Akane. How embarrassing!!!

Orrrrr

Kakashi (mostly) play growling at the kids when they decide to test a wind-fire-earth combo move that destroys his icha icha. They barely have time to scream when Akane shows up with Tenzo to collect Kakashi for a mission. They immediately yell at him to pls pls pls help them so Akane slides between kakashi where he’s still growling and stalking towards the kids (who promptly hide behind him and start making faces at Kakashi) sins growls back even Better. Kakashi stops dead and Sakura stops sticking her tongue out at him in shock. They could feel akane’s whole back vibrate with the force of the growl. Scary.

AU where Naruto, single as can fucking be, decides he's ready for a kid. Not being in a relationship, he has absolutely no way to get one and would never ask someone to carry one for him— this leaves him with one option.

Throw in a modified sexy jutsu here, a little Kurama powers there, a seal or two, and boomshakalaka. He's ready to carry it himself! Great! Now he just needs someone to put one in him and he's like, totally set!

Who does he know who doesn't have any complicated clan affiliations, who has no known health problems, decent chakra reserves, is strong, relatively attractive, smart, marginally stable, fully functioning, and who he trusts?

Meanwhile kakashi is so horny about him 24/7 he feels like a chained up werewolf

I'm just imagining he does this all without consulting Sakura, who isn't stupid OR blind, so when he drops the news she's just out here like 🧍

Meanwhile, Kakashi is having every territorial feeling ever in the whole entire fucking world and has simply stopped trying to hide it. And what frame of reference does Naruto have for pregnant people and their partners? Literally the vaguest construct, and he trusts Kakashi, so surely this must be totally normal. Why would his completely ordinary sensei who's completely a regular and well-adjusted guy ever be a total weirdo???

He forgets about the promise on and off, more focused on training at first then fighting in a whole ass war.

But things settle down eventually and life isn’t quite so chaotic. he even has a chance to breathe now that sasuke isn’t running away with the creep that bit his neck or towards his brother.

He abruptly remembers the promise when he overhears Ino talking about her cousin having kids and immediately flips out.

Hes so behind! He was supposed to be married! With a kid! How is he supposed to meet his great great grandchildren now?!?! What if he dies? What if Kurama dies!? There’s no one to pass him to in Konoha and he can’t just be out there anymore!!!!!! He’s a hermit!

Cue intense week of invention where he creates a seal based transformation jutsu so he doesn’t accidentally drop it mid-term and have to start over again.

Anyone that tries to come interrupt him get tossed outside (if they try to make him leave) or snarled at (try to interrupt him). Kakashi has to issue a don’t bother Naruto rule for a few days after he almost broke Kiba’s arm from literally throwing him out of his apartment and down onto the pavement.

When kakashi goes to see Naruto about it he gets teeth bared at him and it scratches the Hatake part of his brain just right.

The fact that’s the last image he has of Naruto before he’s literally throwing himself at kakashi and asking to be bred does not help his resolve at all.

———

Also Naruto who thinks his team is soooooo normal. Totally average. Everyone else is kinda weird too so no way he’s having kids with them! What if it’s hereditary? He can’t risk it!

So he needs the most normal dude around. Someone that can teach their kid not to be super weird and lame like so many of the other Konoha nin.

KAKASHI!

Naruto runs his ass into Kakashi’s office, circles the chair with Kakashi in it, and hums.

He jumps up on the desk and leans forward until his forehead is touching Kakashi’s.

Hmmm. Good. He didn’t lean back.

He inhales for good measure too.

Ooooooo. Not bad. He even smells good. Weird he didn’t notice that much before.

Imagine Naruto, raised in the red light district for all that the word “raised” has never really applied to him, starting to think about pregnant people and their partners but THAT is his reference for it.

His expectations and preparation period is interesting to say the least.

He doesn’t have any pretty clothes. Thats like a requirement for this right? He’s pretty sure it is Kurama!

His closet is promptly piled up with clothes that while pretty, have a few particular connotations to them that naruto completely misses. Thats just what women wear when they’re walking near his apartment.

Kakashi stares at them for a while and has to do some breathing exercises for SEVERAL reasons.

———

I imagine the ANBU straight up falling into the floor like flies they’re so shocked by what Naruto said

———

OMFG imagine Kakashi’s stomach absolutely dropping when Naruto first says the you’d be a good dad thing because ooooooooooh no. Oh no oh no oh nooooooo. His crush does NOT see him as a kinda father figure. Oh god no. Please no.

I like to imagine that Naruto hasn't consulted anyone else, bar Kurama, on this. Why would he need to? This is HIS plan to start HIS family, and he and Kurama have it covered. He's got his seals in place, he's got a father picked out, he's got pretty clothes now, and he already knows from growing up near the Red Light district what he's supposed to do– he's set and ready to go.

And Kakashi finds out that Naruto hasn't told anyone else. It buzzes in the back of his head and it occurs to him all of a sudden that one, this is definitely his in. That if he's going to be a selfish, greedy, awful man and get what he wants, this is literally a straight shot into his life's greatest dream. Great! Amazing! He's already salivating!

But two, if Sakura or anyone else finds out prematurely, Naruto's whole plan will be shot down. Beyond all the potential complications that could arise with a man being pregnant, there's just no way she or anyone else would approve. Worse, there's a chance Naruto might listen. Insert Kakashi trying desperately not only to hide it until he can get the deed done but also trying to, you know, actually get the deed done.

The only problem with this is that once Kakashi starts, he can't stop. All these territorial feelings start to bubble and swell in him. Naruto so much as breathes near another person and Kakashi starts twitching, because this is all new, and fresh, and it could all go away, and Naruto is going to have his baby.

Bonus plot twist: Sakura is mildly disturbed but doesn't actually give a fuck as long as Naruto is happy.

BONUS BONUS plot twist (plot point? You tell me): Naruto's hind brain figures that before he gets pregnant, he and Kakashi need to smell alike first. Like, obviously. Duh. Basic rule. Cut to him sneaking into Kakashi's apartment to steal his clothes, sleep in his bed, use his shampoo and body wash, pilfer his sheets.

Kakashi suggested they spend some time together, get all their feelings out, explain each other’s side of the story now that they had their chance. Sasuke hated that idea, but Naruto had managed to convince him by explaining they could get out of the village, just take a nice peaceful wander. Sasuke didn’t know how peaceful it could possibly be with the knuckleheaded ninja but any excuse to leave the village.

The wind flowed through his hair, cold from the morning dew, and he inhaled slowly. Naruto was indeed being very peaceful as he promised. He laid beside Sasuke, legs splayed out on the grass, arms tucked behind his head as he stared up at the clear blue sky peeking through the foliage.

“Hey Sas?” Naruto asked, familiar rasp softer than usual, voice calm. Sasuke still couldn’t help but think, there goes my peace and quiet…

“Have we ever hugged before?”

Sasuke blinks at the question, looking down at Naruto with a raised eyebrow. Naruto was looking up at him, expression so earnest he looked like a child.

“What?”

“Have we ever hugged? ‘Cause like…I don’t think we have.”

Sasuke paused as he thought, a rapid collage of familiar scenes playing through his mind rapidly and…he also couldn’t think of a single hug. “I don’t…think so. Why?”

Naruto pushed himself up, leaning back on his hands, eyes not leaving Sasuke’s face. “I dunno, I was just thinking. Like, I’ve hugged Sakura before, and even Kakashi-sensei. Definitely hugged Iruka…but not you. Ain’t that weird?” Naruto sheepishly giggled, smile all teeth and awkward.

Sasuke tilted his head, “Why is that weird?”

“Well it’s just, I mean we’ve done everything else. We’ve punched each other, kicked, stabbed, thrown about…we’ve even kissed before a simple hug.”

Sasuke broke first and looked away from Naruto, “That wasn’t even my fault, it was yours-”

“It’ wasn’t my fault either—I’ve told you this for years now!” Naruto pouted, shifting to sit cross legged so he could face Sasuke.

“Why do you even care that we haven’t hugged?” Sasuke huffed, rolling his eyes as he plucked another blade of long grass near his legs. There was a pile of mangled grass stacked beside him and an increasing bald patch right in front.

“We’re best friends and best friends hug each other all the time, but we haven’t even once. You’ve stabbed me before you’ve hugged me, isn’t that so weird?” Naruto countered, leaning forward on his hands to push into Sasuke’s personal space. Sasuke felt himself leaning away subconsciously.

“So what? You want a hug, is that it?” Sasuke looked toward the blonde and was met with a warm smile, bright blue eyes trained on his face and seeing deep into his soul.

“Yeah! But only if you want it too.”

Sasuke rolled his eyes, shaking his head but holding his one arm open for Naruto, “Fine.”

Naruto’s smile grew and he shifted forward on his knees to hug Sasuke, wrapping both arms around his neck. Even though he sounded so excited for it, Sasuke could feel the hesitation; Naruto didn’t quite squeeze him the way he would others, didn’t really press their chests together, didn’t move as close as he could be. It was like he was getting ready to pull back at any moment. Sasuke wrapped his arm around Naruto’s waist, hand resting on his lower back.

He always knew Naruto ran hot but from this distance he could really feel the warmth radiating off him, pouring out from the high collar of his jacket, even through the tightly wrapped bandages on his replacement hand.

“…This is kinda weird,” Naruto sheepishly chuckled, voice low next to Sasuke’s ear.

“A little,” Sasuke hummed, also unmoving.

It was like they were going through the motions rather than actually hugging like good friends should. Sasuke didn’t know how to remedy that. He felt bad that he was making this probably sentimental moment for Naruto awkward as hell.

“Heh, sorry,” Naruto said, moving to pull back. The awkward, almost scared tone in his voice shot straight through Sasuke’s heart. He felt a pang of guilt, a wave of cold shame washing over him. He squeezed Naruto’s waist tighter, pulling him closer into his personal space.

“You don’t have to do that. We’re hugging, isn’t this what you wanted?”

“I-I—well yeah but, I mean…if you don’t want to—”

“Who said I don’t want to?” Sasuke replied, squeezing Naruto tighter, pressing his face into his shoulder. He could smell him now, his natural scent and detergent clinging to his clothes; warm, like a freshly washed towel hanging out in the hot sun, comforting and soothing. Sasuke relaxed in Naruto’s hold, body calming naturally and all on its own. It took Naruto a second to get it and also relax, shifting further into Sasuke’s personal space, making himself comfortable. He knelt on the grass, leaning against Sasuke more, chin resting on his shoulder. Sasuke could hear him swallow hard, brain processing this moment, no doubt cementing it in his own collection of moments between them.

“I just thought…you wouldn’t like this,” Naruto mumbled, arms shifting around Sasuke’s neck, one hand gently stroking his hair.

“Why’s that?”

“You’re not really a touchy-feely guy. You rarely let anyone else touch you at all so I thought a hug would be out of the question,” Naruto answered, voice calm and steady in a way that Sasuke hadn’t really ever heard before.

“You’re the exception,” Sasuke mumbled, hand rubbing the small of Naruto’s back.

“Really?”

“I came back for you, didn’t I? I wouldn’t do that for anyone else, just like I wouldn’t do this for anyone else.” It was true, Naruto was the exception. The exception to everything. He meant the world to Sasuke even if he didn’t realise it.

Naruto smiled, shifting a bit in Sasuke’s hold, moving to sit in his lap. Sasuke didn’t complain so Naruto kept going until he was sat in the man’s lap, their chests pressed against each other, now locked in a true perfect hug. Naruto rested his cheek on Sasuke’s shoulder, the tip of his nose rubbing against the column of Sasuke’s neck. He could feel the slow warmth seeping through his clothes, like a heated blanket hidden under all those layers. He could smell his shampoo, clean and herbal, and the cologne Kakashi had gifted him for his birthday.

“You actually wear it,” Naruto mumbled, pressing his face further into Sasuke’s neck.

“Hm?” Sasuke replied, resting his cheek against the side of Naruto’s head.

“The cologne Kakashi got you, you actually wear it,” Naruto’s voice was low in his ear, almost slurring his words like he was falling asleep.

“Yeah…do you like it?” Naruto nodded, face rubbing against Sasuke’s exposed skin. He squeezed his arms tighter around the other man, legs wrapped around his waist doing the same. Sasuke squeezed Naruto in return, hand crawling up his spine to press against the middle of his back.

“This is nice,” Naruto weakly chuckled, in turn making Sasuke snort.

“Yeah, this is nice.”

They stayed there like that for who knows how long. Neither of them cared to move, even when Sasuke couldn’t feel his legs and Naruto’s arms were falling asleep. Sasuke had never felt so calm, so relaxed in his life. He could feel Naruto relaxing in his hold, his breathing slowing and heart relaxing to steady rhythms Sasuke tried to mirror.