Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Maito Gai | Might Guy, Haruno Sakura & Hatake Kakashi, Hatake Kakashi & Rock Lee, Rock Lee & Maito Gai | Might Guy
Characters: Hatake Kakashi, Maito Gai | Might Guy, Rock Lee, Haruno Sakura, Original Minor Characters
Additional Tags: Fourth Shinobi War (Naruto), POV Hatake Kakashi, Maito Gai | Might Guy-centric, Passive Suicidality, Injury Recovery, Protective Hatake Kakashi, Good Friend Maito Gai | Might Guy, i genuinely don't know how to tag how i've written their relationship, Mutual Pining, Secret Relationship, Sort Of, Pre-Relationship, Officially, kind of an extremely romantic secret fwb situationship, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Partially Canon Compliant, Hatake Kakashi-centric, Canon-Typical Violence, Implied/Referenced Suicide
Summary:
"The Fourth Great War is upon them now. If they win, it will be a miracle. If they lose, Madara Uchiha will have his utopia and the world as they know it will be razed. There are a million things Kakashi might say now; a quarter of them he’s said before, half of them are not to be spoken. Gai was always better at that sort of thing. So instead Kakashi inhales as fully as he can manage, trying to straighten up, and knocks his knuckles against Gai’s.
'One more time,' he says.
Gai nods once, quick and steeled. 'One more time.'"
or, kakashi and gai's last nights together amidst the war to end all wars, before everything changes for good.
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so this post by @lauranthalasah got me thinking about gai's mom again and i wouldn't say she's entered oc territory since i haven't named or designed her but i've definitely thought about her ... quite a bit, along with dai. and i wanted to make a post about her because we all know women don't matter in naruto land but i'm quite fond of them personally
i personally believe gai very strongly takes after his mother, which i mentioned briefly in my gai ocd post (and not dai as much which i talk about here good god i post a lot), so a lot of my interpretation of/headcanons for her are based on my interpretation of gai, and the context for it is in those posts.
so with that said, my thoughts below the cut! forgive all the parentheses i'm complicated
to me, gai's mother was a very talented shinobi. not that skill is genetic, but i DO like to believe dai's inability to use ninjutsu is genetic, and so gai gets his ability from his mother. she was the one getting in fights to defend dai in their academy days when he couldn't protect himself lol. she was also the one making the most money for them to support themselves! she must have been supportive of dai, but someone has to put food on the table and he was not the most secure in that regard. she probably didn't love the idea of the gates or dai hurting himself either (who would?) but she understood him
dai comes off as very laid back in terms of how people view him, and i think anyone who cared about him would be the total opposite, just like gai. it would be hard to stand the entire village looking down on someone you love, and so i imagine she was a much angrier person than dai; again, just as gai was.
i also hold the headcanon that all of team gai (and so gai's parents by extension) are chinese, with gai's parents having immigrated as children. like kushina, both of them would have been looked down on by konoha citizens, which made them both targets of bullying, but also encouraged them to seek companionship in each other (although i'm fond of the idea gai's mother didn't even like dai at first, she just didn't like seeing him get beat up)
this i'm not really certain on, but i think it's possible she and dai were never married. they were longtime partners and lived together and everything, but something hurts me about the idea of dai being hesitant to let his love marry into a clan with no prospects and no money, just his scorned last name. maybe they planned it someday, and that day just never came.
i think she was mentally ill. dai, as much as he definitely has some issues, was pretty stable all things considered, and gai is... not, even from a very young age before anything truly terrible had happened (see linked posts for more on that!). she probably suffered from ptsd like most shinobi, but i think she also struggled with depression and possibly ocd/anxiety. dai recognizes similar symptoms in gai, but has a hard time effectively handling them as he's never experienced them himself. he wasn't prepared to raise a child alone :')
like he got his mind from her, i think gai looks a lot like his mother too. he gets his dark shiny hair from dai, but beyond that he has a lot of his mother's features. he'd probably look like dai if he grew a mustache though. he's transgender (canon & real) so he looked more like her when he was younger, but there's definitely still a strong resemblance between them. i think it's cute when boys look like their moms ok
also, the ONLY TIME gai EVER mentions his mother (afaik, please prove me wrong if there's something else) is in one of the ninja storm games, during the madara fight. he says this:
which, while obviously just being a reference to being Alive because of her, i like to take as him getting his physical prowess and looks from her. let's be buff with mama
and finally... unfortunately we can assume gai's mom is dead, because she's not present (and all women not shown in naruto are dead bc they don't have lives outside of the people around him ig). i know people have talked/written about her just being a deadbeat but i'm sure you can see that doesn't fit my personal take on her. so as much as i'd prefer she wasn't fridged at all, i think she died in childbirth. i believe dai raised gai completely alone, so she was out of the picture from the beginning. just a grieving husband and a little newborn baby alone in the dead of winter :')
so... there's my sort of scrambled thoughts on mrs maito. i wish we had a more clear narrative on her (or like... anything) but we do not and so this is what i've personally come up with. PLEAAASEEE talk to me if you have your own thoughts on her, or any of the other poor fridged and forgotten naruto women!!! i'd love to hear them!!
Sequel to this other post, Lee is gonna bolt it home to prevent them from getting sick on the street. What he doesn't realize is that being shaken so hard is gonna make them even sicker </3 at least he tries.
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Drew this a while ago and I don't have anyone to show it irl, and I was taken by a mad impulse to create a tumblr at 3am and so here we are posting naruto fanart in *looks at watch* 2025
lately ive been seeing a lot of posts talking about an individual named The Character. I do not know who they are but they seem to be a very interesting person and people seem to really like putting them through many different situations and doing things to them..? Its all very interesting and captivating. Has anyone else seen or heard of this?
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gai ran back as quickly as he could from his mission and turned up at tsunades location IMMEDIATELY crashing onto the floor and asking how lees surgery went oh my godddd I love them so much you guys
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