throw the whole boy away

The thing about Kakashi is that if he gave any of his adult friends a genuine, full-armed, lean-into-it hug, they would pat his back and then later run to the other friends’ houses and go “we’re putting kakashi on suicide watch again”

#man would try to tell his friends he appreciates them#and they would instantly be on the radio like#code black#i repeat code black#he's pulling a His Dad#and it's probably gonna be tonight

The thing about Kakashi is that if he gave any of his adult friends a genuine, full-armed, lean-into-it hug, they would pat his back and then later run to the other friends’ houses and go “we’re putting kakashi on suicide watch again”

#man would try to tell his friends he appreciates them#and they would instantly be on the radio like#code black#i repeat code black#he's pulling a His Dad#and it's probably gonna be tonight

This is also why naruto becoming obsessed with sasuke just makes sense to me. He lashed out and was openly envious and petty and competitive with sasuke at every turn but sasuke still gave him food, still saved his life, still acknowledged him as a capable fighter. Sasuke doesn’t take him picking fights personally and also instinctively grasps naruto’s issues (he points out how alone he is in both vote fights whereas someone like, idk, shikamaru, literally only realizes how isolated naruto was when everyone sees his memories in the final arc of the series). With nearly everyone else, naruto had to prove his worth, often through risking his life and safety. He had to extend empathy to neji first. He had to extend empathy to gaara first. He had to comfort Sakura over sasuke then promise to bring him back for her, risking his life, before she fully acknowledged him as a friend. Not that any of these are bad friendships, but it’s so obvious naruto needed someone who doesn’t expect him to be their hero. Like it’s obviously intentional and symbolic that sasuke is the only one fighting side by side with naruto while everyone else relies on and channels their hopes and fears into him.

He also never asked for anything in return

there’s this thing that happens on this website that’s like the opposite of pissing on the poor and is far better but also still somewhat annoying when you post something where the point is implied and then someone else adds the point you were making in a reblog as though they are like, adding something new and insightful to the post. eg you can post something about a female scientist from the 1800s having her intellect undervalued in her time and someone else is going to add like “that’s so crazy… i think they were treating her this way due to misogyny” and like well yes. i mean… yeah. you got it