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Naruto 498: Mom’s Red Hair;

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A Misunderstanding
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The misunderstanding begins at the gates of the Land of Tea, beneath a sky the pale blue of watered silk.
The road has spent the better part of the afternoon winding through steep green hills, where tea bushes march down the slopes in clipped, orderly rows and workers in broad straw hats move between them with baskets strapped to their backs. The air smells of wet earth, woodsmoke and crushed leaves: sharp, clean and faintly bitter on the tongue.
Kakashi walks beside Minato with his hands tucked into his sleeves, looking profoundly unimpressed by the beauty of the countryside. At fourteen, he has already mastered the particular expression of a shinobi who suspects scenery is merely an ambush with better lighting.
“Lovely, isn’t it?” Minato asks.
Kakashi’s visible eye travels over the hills, the distant river and the tiled estate rising beyond a pale stone wall.
“There are archers on the eastern roof.”
Minato glances at him. “Try not to assess our hosts as potential enemies before we meet them.”
“I assessed the bridge too.”
“Of course you did.”
“It has structural weaknesses.”
The estate gates swing open before Minato can explain that diplomacy generally requires observing things other than how efficiently they might be destroyed.
Minister Daichi comes down the broad front steps to greet them, wrapped in green silk embroidered with gold tea leaves. He is a cheerful, round-faced man with the expansive manner of someone who has never once doubted that a room will welcome him. Behind him, officials, guards and household attendants wait in precise rows while an elderly woman in plum coloured robes watches from the veranda with the bright-eyed concentration of a person already assembling several rumors.
Daichi bows deeply.
“Lord Fourth. The Land of Tea is honoured by your presence.”
Minato returns the bow and gestures toward Kakashi.
“This is Kakashi---”
“Your son,” Daichi finishes warmly.
Minato pauses. Kakashi looks up at him.
There is no resemblance between them that could survive even modest scrutiny. Minato is fair haired, blue eyed and currently wearing the patient smile of a man trying to prevent an international incident before tea. Kakashi has silver hair, one dark eye and the wary posture of a child who has already counted every weapon in the courtyard.
The only trait they visibly share is a habit of checking exits upon entering unfamiliar places, which shinobi generally do not consider hereditary.
“How admirable,” Daichi continues, clasping his hands. “The Hokage brings his heir to witness the work of governance.”
Minato falters, “He is actually---”
“A great honour, Lord Kakashi,” says one of the officials.
Kakashi’s eye sharpens. Minato (unfortunately) knows that look. He has seen it before bell tests, minor thefts and every occasion upon which Obito has made the catastrophic mistake of saying, You wouldn’t dare.
Kakashi inclines his head with grave courtesy.
“The honour is mine.”
Minato turns slowly toward him.
Daichi beams. “Such composure. Just like his father.”
Kakashi is already standing a fraction straighter, as though he has spent his entire life preparing to inherit a country he learned existed yesterday.
“He is my student,” Minato manages.
Daichi’s expression softens.
“How fortunate,” he says. “For both of you.”
And that is how Kakashi becomes his son before they have crossed the courtyard.
A Misunderstanding: The Aftermath
A/N: I have no excuse :|
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The rumor returns from the Land of Tea before Minato does.
It arrives folded inside official correspondence, stamped with three seals and addressed in an elegant hand to the Fourth Hokage and his esteemed heir, Lord Kakashi. By the time the portrait follows - a tasteful rendering of Minato and Kakashi beneath a plum tree, standing shoulder to shoulder while pale blossoms drift around them - the misunderstanding has already rooted itself in Konoha’s markets, where facts are generally treated as the less entertaining cousins of gossip.
The first merchant to act upon it is an elderly woman who sells grilled rice cakes near the mission office.
Kakashi stops at her stall on the way home from training, damp from the afternoon heat and carrying a packet of replacement wire beneath one arm. The air above the brazier is sweet with soy glaze and smoke. Cicadas scream from the trees with the exhausted fury of creatures personally offended by summer.
The woman takes one look at him, then at the official parcel bearing the Hokage’s seal.
Her face brightens.
“Lord Kakashi.”
Kakashi pauses. He has been called many things in his fourteen years. Prodigy. Jōnin. White Fang’s son. A menace (usually by Obito). Lord Kakashi remains new enough to be interesting.
“Yes?”
She selects the largest rice cake from the grill and wraps it in paper.
“For the Hokage’s boy.”
Kakashi looks at the rice cake.
Then at her.
There is, technically, a moment in which the truth might still be rescued.
Naturally, it passes.
“How much?” he asks.
“Family rate.”
The family rate, Kakashi discovers, is free. He accepts the rice cake with the solemnity of a diplomat receiving tribute. The woman beams after him as he walks away, smoke curling beneath the awning and the parcel tucked securely beneath his arm.
Kakashi takes one bite.
He stops. The glaze is still warm, crisp at the edges and sticky enough to catch against his mask. Behind him, coins clink into a wooden box. The market moves around the stall in its usual bright disorder: vegetables arranged beneath damp cloths, sandals striking stone, merchants calling over one another as if volume were a recognized form of competitive advantage.
Kakashi looks back at the woman.
“Does the family rate apply to sweet bean dumplings?”
She gives him two.
That is how it begins. The market rumor does not spread in a straight line. It drifts, pauses to improve itself, then doubles back wearing better clothes.
Someone sees the Land of Tea portrait displayed briefly in the Hokage Tower. Someone else recognizes the green ceremonial sash Kakashi continues to wear because, according to him, silk is durable and refusing foreign gifts retroactively would be discourteous. A clerk remembers that the Land of Tea addressed him as Minato’s heir. A baker points out that Kakashi already enters the Hokage’s home without knocking.
By the end of the week, the market has reached a version of events satisfying enough to require no further evidence.
The Fourth Hokage has adopted Hatake Kakashi in secret. The secrecy is necessary because of foreign assassins, clan politics, Kakashi’s inheritance, Minato’s modesty, or all four at once. Nobody agrees upon the details. This does not impede certainty.
Kakashi does nothing to encourage the story. He merely begins buying his mission supplies in the market rather than from the quartermaster. The blacksmith near the eastern wall services his kunai at what he calls the household rate. A tea seller quietly adds an extra cup to his order. The baker slips sesame buns into his bag with the instruction that one is for his father.
Minato receives none of these buns.
This is not selfishness. Kakashi simply considers it unwise to burden the Hokage with the administrative consequences of every civilian misunderstanding.
It’s happy alternative reality that we deserved, guys :’’’3 There is also a bonus of how lil naruto sees all of his nee-chans and nii-chans ahaha
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For a month an ink smeared face was observed dashing around the village. Often seen tongue sticking out and brow furrowed in pure concentration as they scratched out something in a little notebook though hissing like a feral cat when anyone tried to see what they were doing. To them this project they were pouring so much into had to be perfect. All consumed as they devoured books, ran to and from the edges of the village, and asking various sources for assistance until it was satisfyingly finished. -
All that handwork culminating into a parchment filled with rough sketches of various plants with each named, where they were observed in the village, if they should be touched or left alone, and the consequences if not; the death ones had a funny little face with x’s for eyes. At the bottom a little note in crisp but childish handwriting saying this wasn’t a complete reference, but it might help keep him out of trouble in the future. -
Then all that diligence was neatly folded up with a few wildflowers before Reni went scampering up to that bright blonde man and handed the bundle off before taking off in a fit of giggles not sticking around to be interrogated about it.
Minato has been on the receiving end of many things in his life: Kunai. Explosive tags. Mission scrolls. Threats from enemy shinobi delivered with varying degrees of theatrical conviction. Inoichi’s unsolicited advice. Kushina’s occasionally solicited advice, usually issued at a volume that suggested the entire village might benefit from hearing it too.
He has, however, never been ambushed by a bundle of parchment and wildflowers.
It happens just outside the academy grounds, in the gold-warm slant of late afternoon. Minato has barely finished speaking with one of the instructors when a small shape darts toward him from the side path, feet quick against the packed earth, laughter already escaping in bright, breathless bursts.
He turns just in time to see an ink-smudged face, fierce eyes, and a pair of hands thrusting something up at him with all the urgency of a mission handoff.
“For you!”
Minato accepts it automatically.
“Ah,” he says, because one should always say something when unexpectedly entrusted with classified wildflowers. “Thank you---”
The child is already gone with the particular speed of someone who has planned the delivery but absolutely not the conversation after it. A ribbon flashes around the corner. A giggle trails after her, then disappears into the noise of the academy yard.
Minato is left standing with a folded parchment in his hands and several wildflowers tucked beneath a loop of twine.
The instructor beside him looks at the bundle.
Then at Minato.
Then at the corner where the child vanished.
“Do I want to know?” they ask.
“I’m not sure yet,” Minato replies. The flowers are small and slightly crushed from being held too tightly. Their stems have been wrapped with the same care one might give to binding a wound; yellow, white, purple. Common roadside blooms, but chosen with attention rather than decoration. He studies them for a moment, then smiles despite himself.
No thorns. No suspicious sap. No crow-dipper. He has the distinct sense that this is intentional.
Minato carries the bundle to a bench beneath the old persimmon tree before opening it. The academy is loud around him: students arguing over the rules of a game that seems to have very few rules, an instructor calling someone down from a wall, the dry scrape of practice kunai against wood. Afternoon light filters through the leaves overhead and falls in shifting patterns across the parchment as he unfolds it.
Then unfolds it again. And again.
By the time it lies fully open across his lap, Minato is staring at a document that has clearly required more fieldwork than several official reconnaissance reports he has read this month.
The parchment is covered edge to edge in sketches; rough, urgent drawings made by someone far more concerned with survival than elegance. Leaves are circled. Stems are marked. Berries are rendered with ominous emphasis. Dangerous parts have been underlined, boxed in, or accompanied by arrows sharp enough to look accusatory.
Each plant has a name, and each name is followed by where it was observed in the village, whether it should be touched or left alone, and what might happen to a person foolish enough to ignore the warning.
Minato recognizes crow-dipper immediately, as it has been drawn with particular severity.
CROW-DIPPER Seen: academy west fence, north training field, drainage ditch after rain Touch: NO Consequence: swelling, burning, shame
Underneath, in smaller handwriting:
Already explained once.
Minato presses his lips together. It does not help; a laugh escapes him anyway, quiet and helpless, and he has to cover it with his hand because the note has been written with such grave disappointment that laughing feels disrespectful.
He reads on.
FALSE MINT Seen: behind library, shady rocks Touch: no Consequence: rash, itching, regret Note: smells nice because it is lying
MOONSEED CREEPER Seen: old wall, east side Touch: maybe Eat: NO Consequence: poison, stomach pain, possible death
Beside that entry is a little face with x’s for eyes.
Minato stares at it for a long moment. Then, very carefully, he turns the parchment to catch the light better. There are more faces beside the more dangerous entries. Small, dramatic, occasionally lopsided faces with x’s for eyes and tongues sticking out. One has what appears to be a tiny grave marker next to it. Another has lines around it, perhaps to indicate spiritual departure, or perhaps simply emphasis. It is difficult to tell.
The guide continues: Blistervine. Widow’s lace. Redcap mushroom. Silvergrass. Bitterroot. Foxglove. A creeping plant near the memorial path that has been labeled beautiful but rude. A cluster of berries near the outer wall that receives three separate warnings, one of which reads, in impressively crisp handwriting:
Do not “just check.”
Minato lowers the parchment slightly and looks out over the academy yard.
The child who gave it to him is nowhere in sight.
Still, he can picture her with startling clarity: ink on her cheek, notebook clutched close, brow furrowed as if the world itself has presented her with an error she intends to correct by force of concentration.
His amusement softens. At the bottom of the parchment, beneath the final row of sketches, there is a note.
The handwriting is careful. Childish, yes, but deliberate. Each character has been placed with effort, the way children write when the message matters enough to slow their hand.
This is not a complete reference. Konoha has many dangerous plants and some might be missing. But it might help keep you out of trouble in the future.
A pause. Then:
The flowers are safe.
Minato’s fingers still on the edge of the page. For a while, he simply sits there with the parchment across his lap, listening to the ordinary noise of the academy.
There is something tender and terrible about being cared for by a child. It lands somewhere deep in him, warm and bright and unexpectedly painful.
But children in Konoha learn danger so early. They learn to identify poison, to watch hands, to count exits, to notice which adults are bleeding and which ones are pretending not to. They learn that love can look like warning someone away from a plant that burns.
And this child - this very small, very serious child - has spent who knows how long making him a guide. Because once, he had touched something dangerous, and she had decided that was unacceptable.
Minato bows his head over the parchment and smiles.
“Thank you,” he says softly, though she is no longer there to hear it.
Then he folds the guide back up with the same care he would give a treaty document. More care, perhaps. Treaties rarely come with hand-drawn death faces.
The wildflowers he tucks into the front of his vest, stems angled safely away from the fabric.
He spends the walk back to the Hokage Tower trying very hard not to look too pleased.
This effort fails almost immediately. Jiraiya notices before Minato has even crossed the room.
His teacher is sprawled by the window in a way that suggests he has never respected furniture in his life. Hiruzen sits behind his desk, pipe in hand, half-buried in paperwork. Both men look up when Minato enters.
Jiraiya’s eyes go straight to the flowers.
Slowly, his face brightens.
“Oh,” he says. “This looks interesting.”
“It is not,” Minato says at once.
“Then why do you have flowers in your vest?”
“They were entrusted to me.”
“By whom?”
“A concerned citizen.”
Hiruzen’s brows lift over his pipe. “A concerned citizen?”
Minato considers lying - he is very good at lying when the mission requires it.
Unfortunately, this is not a mission, and Jiraiya already looks delighted.
“A student from the academy,” Minato admits.
Jiraiya sits up. “You got flowers from an academy student?”
“I received a field guide.”
“A field guide.”
“To dangerous village plants.”
There is a brief silence. Then Jiraiya’s grin spreads with horrifying speed.
Minato points at him. “No.”
“I haven’t said anything.”
“You are about to.”
“I am about to say several things.”
“Hokage sama,” Minato says, turning to Hiruzen, “I would like to request formal protection.”
“Denied,” Hiruzen says mildly. “Show me the field guide.”
Minato hesitates. It is not classified, exactly. But it feels private in the way important children’s things are private. Not secret, but entrusted. There is a difference.
Still, Hiruzen’s expression has softened with genuine curiosity, and Jiraiya, for all his playful jabs, knows better than to mock sincerity when it has come from someone small.
Minato unfolds the parchment across the desk. Jiraiya automatically leans over it while Hiruzen takes his pipe from his mouth. He reads the first entry and the corner of his mouth twitches.
“Shame,” he murmurs.
Jiraiya makes a sound like a cough strangled by laughter.
Minato closes his eyes. “It was listed as a consequence.”
“Was it accurate?”
“Regrettably.”
Jiraiya bends closer. “Already explained once,” he reads aloud, and then he does laugh, loud enough that someone in the hall pauses outside the door. “Brat, you’ve been medically supervised by a child.”
“She was correct.”
“That makes it better.”
“It does, actually.”
Hiruzen continues reading, his amusement settling into something quieter. He traces one finger near the edge of the parchment, careful not to smudge the ink. His gaze pauses at the final note.
The room grows gentler.
“This is good work,” he says.
Minato nods. “Yes.”
“Thorough.”
“Very.”
“Practical.”
“Extremely.”
Jiraiya’s smile has changed too, though he would deny it under questioning. “Kid has good instincts.”
“She does,” Minato says.
“And good taste. Clearly likes hopeless cases.”
“I’m choosing to ignore that.”
“You shouldn’t. Ignoring warnings is how you ended up with a plant guide.”
Minato refolds the parchment before Jiraiya can read any more entries aloud. “I have learned my lesson.”
“Have you?”
“Yes.”
“What lesson?”
Minato looks at the flowers tucked into his vest. Then at the folded guide in his hands.
He thinks of ink-smudged cheeks, small hands, careful warnings, and a giggle vanishing around the academy corner before gratitude could catch it.
“Don’t touch crow-dipper,” he says.
Jiraiya groans. Hiruzen chuckles into his pipe.
But Minato keeps the guide. He takes it home that evening and places it on his desk beside unfinished seal designs and mission notes. The flowers go into a cup of water near the window. They are slightly bent, and one petal has torn, but they brighten the room anyway.
For several days afterward, Minato consults the parchment whenever he crosses the academy grounds.
This is partly because the guide is useful. It is also because, on the third day, he spots a familiar ink-smudged face watching him from behind the persimmon tree.
Minato notices the moment her eyes flick to his hands.
He very deliberately stops in front of a patch of crow-dipper and looks at the plant.
Then at the guide. Then back at the plant.
He then takes three careful steps away from it. From behind the tree comes a small, violently suppressed giggle.
Minato does not turn.
He only smiles down at the parchment and continues walking, safe from crow-dipper, suspicious berries, and the terrible shame of disappointing his smallest field expert.
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For havecrayonswilltravel, perpetualcalamity, and miscella: Steve and Damian keep in contact. A continuation of this.
Commander Rogers, I’m sorry if you believe this letter to be distastefully tardy. I wasn’t going to write one at all, but Pennyworth (my manservant) insisted that I should send you a “thank you” card. The selection of “thank you” cards I found was unsatisfactory, so I made this one myself. You mentioned that you were an artist, so I believe that you’ll appreciate my use of color. (I have a large collection of crayons.)
I did not want to send you this, because I still resent that you suggested I order from the children’s menu at IHOP. I still find the cutesy acronym and whipped cream smile that came with my pancakes offensive on a personal level. But after I thoroughly researched your name, Googled you, I felt compelled to keep contact. You did not tell me that you are a decorated war veteran, as well as a high-ranking officer. These are things that should have come up in the course of our conversation.
Additionally, your Wikipedia entry contains an error that you may want to have your people correct. It says that you were born in 1917, which would make you nearly a hundred years old. If it is your actual birthdate, you must reveal to me how you’ve gained usage of a Lazarus Pit.
I have included one (1) drawing of a cat I saw earlier this week. Its vacuous expression and markings reminded me of you. Do you like cats? I would appreciate your professional assessment of my artistic skill. Furthermore, I would appreciate it if you would continue to keep our meeting to yourself. My father is a very rich and very busy man. He need not know.
Again, you have my condolences on the passing of your friend, Mr. Barnes.
Sincerely, Damian Wayne
Damian,
It’s good to hear from you. I have to say, I was surprised by your letter. I know you probably get told all the time that you have great penmanship and a large vocabulary, but I’m still very impressed. Are you sure that your birthday isn’t a typo?I can’t remember the last time I met such an intelligent young man. Your father must be very proud to call you his son.
I hate to date myself, but that Wikipedia entry is right. I was born in New York City on the 4th of July, 1917. Just before America threw herself into World War II, I volunteered to be a test subject in a program that aimed to turn skinny, sick men into the strong soldiers that our country needed. The project failed to produce an army, but it did work on me. I fought as Captain America until the end of the war. I only gave up the name recently, to a man worthy of it. The shield has found its way back to me, sadly. I’m surprised that a young man as educated as you are hadn’t heard about that. It’s rare that I meet anyone who doesn’t know me as Captain first and Steve second.
You show a whole lot of talent, guts, ingenuity, and potential, Damian. I taped your drawing up on my desk, and every time I look at it, I can’t help but smile. In my professional opinion, I think that it’s obvious that you both love art and love animals. You can’t hide passion. Stick with it, okay?
I’m glad that we met. I was having a real tough time, so making a new friend did my heart good. I’d like to get to know you better, if you wouldn’t mind being my penpal. Do you have a favorite subject in school? Any hobbies, aside from art? And have you heard back from your friend Grayson? I’ll bet he’d appreciate a letter from you just as much as I have.
I’ve included one (1) picture of a cat I saw on my morning run. It reminded me of you. I won’t tell your father about the bar ordeal, hand to heart.
Hoping to hear back from you soon, Commander Steve Rogers
The morning is cold enough that the training posts look offended.
Tsunade is out in the field anyway, hair tied back, sleeves rolled, knuckles already red from the bite of winter air. She throws a punch at the log, hears the satisfying thunk, and then - because the universe enjoys comedy - feels a sharp, deep ache pull through her lower abdomen like someone has hooked a finger into a muscle and tugged.
She pauses.
Breathes through her nose.
“Stupid… body,” she mutters, low and vicious, and plants her fist against her hip as if that will intimidate it into behaving.
It does not.
The ache rolls again. Her lower back answers with a familiar, cranky complaint. Her shoulders feel heavy. Her joints feel… louder than usual.
Tsunade exhales, long-suffering.
“Why,” she says to no one, “do I feel like I fought a war in my sleep?”
Behind her, very small footsteps stop.
Minato is on the edge of the training field, a scroll under his arm, flak jacket crisp, hair a sunburst against the gray morning. He’s been headed for the far posts - he always is, because he likes quiet corners and clear angles.
He freezes like a deer who has just heard a twig snap.
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How do I love Like Flowers in Sand? Let me count the ways:
Jang Dong Yoon’s Kim Baek Du is adorable. I want to squish his cheeks and put choice bits of food in his bowl.
The childhood background is sweet and relevant.
There is some great humor in the character interactions. Baek Du is often at the heart of it bc he’s such a himbo but he’s a himbo with a heart of gold (see bullet point 1).
I really enjoy all of the ssireum parts, even though I know nothing about the sport. It’s like how much I liked the fencing bits of 25 21.
The small town setting is perfect. These people gossip like there’s no tomorrow and are all up in each other’s business, but they still care about each other.
The mystery has got me hooked. And it isn’t just some flashy mystery tacked onto the story for interest—it’s deeply connected to the community and the characters’ lives and I really like that. It’s just the right amount of suspense for me (I just finished episode 8 fwiw).
It is a crime that this show isn’t getting more attention. I admit it seemed slow at first but it’s one of my favorite currently airing shows I’m watching right now (and I’m watching a lot of them). I look forward to it every week.
The trailer at top doesn’t do the show justice, either.

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is this a fucking strangers from hell reference
baek ma tan is so unserious i’m so obsessed with him. he’s like “dear father, hope my letter finds you well. i know you’re busy hoarding your wealth and setting up drones to spy on me but i wanted to tell you that today i took the bus to work to experience the life of an average office worker and to show you i can get by without my family’s support” and the camera cuts to wide shot of him sitting on a totally empty private bus that his chauffeur is driving

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If you want to be the main character of a drama, just memorize the famous lines and apply them.
Gaus Electronics (2022) / Kill Me, Heal Me (2015)
Why don’t you talk it out with Na Rae? I’ll get dumped.