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I’m just obsessed with this little moment. Kakashi pulling Gai in close to whisper in his ear so fluidly and easily even back during his ANBU days…

He loves him… he trusts him… he’s comfortable being close to him…

It just has me in all the feels.

I just love that we get to see him pulling Gai in for once 💜

Lee: Gai-sensei is such an inspiration! Neji, let’s train too!

Them, fully clothed, in any position that without clothes would basically be wild sex, while they say it's just sparring.

Yeeeees lol, I laughed for 10 minutes when I first saw it, and then kept rewatching it and laughed some more 😂

oh man its really hard to explain without outright going back 1200+ chapters/episodes and finding examples

just off the top of my head, gai;

listens intently to his three students when they grieve about their problems, and gives advice an adult should give a preteen (encouraging, openminded, gentle)

like look at the test he gave fresh-genin graduates neji, lee, and tenten and how believable it is, its like an actual test you give to 12-year-olds and not kakashi’s ridiculous mindgame that made things wayyyy more complicated and manipulative than it needed to be

when he’s disciplining, he does it in a way that i cant easily explain but its obviously the type that works well because its firm but forgiving and it makes preteens feel like they want to do better

is super free with his physical displays of affection towards the kids (ALL kids, not just his students) even though they’re at an age where they might cringe and try to wiggle away, because we may not all like hugs but its always nice to know that someone’s gonna be there no matter what with their arms open and a warm smile

(i tried my best to find the clip but i cant im sorrrrry IT WAS FOUND FOR ME, ITS HERE) the anime has 16-year-old choji run up to gai because none of the genins have eaten dinner and choji’s hongry and gai’s reaction is to ‘scold’ as if choji’s whining about trivial stuff, but one hand immediately sneaks him a package of cookies with a sneaky thumbs up, choji isn’t even his student hes just some random kid

like look at this clip, its one of my absolute favorites because it features just how much of a dad/family this whole group is, plus its made even funnier knowing that this is happening as gaara is dead 

so look at all that wholesome stuff and compare to kakashi’s depressed mid-twenties ass and how he chose to tackle the whole teaching-middle-schoolers thing. he doesn’t talk to them, he doesn’t engage their goals or their ambitions, he arrives late to lessons he put up, literally his first formal introduction to them is that he’s not gonna share anything about his interests or history with them. now, im not saying kakashi’s a complete shit or anything, just that he’s more of a dissociating babysitter than gai’s loving dadness 

and its not just in comparison to kakashi, its also about the parents that we see - the hyuuga clan, gaara’s royal family, the third hokage and how he ‘raised’ naruto, jiraiya’s whole shitty self and his role as ‘mentor’, even tsunande with sakura even. gai’s one of the few who knew how to interact and nurture his students

also fun fact; what i also like about gai is how he looks like half the young adult men of my dad’s generation, seriously all of them were trying to emulate the bruce lee aesthetic back during the late 70′s/early 80′s

But apparently one of the handbooks clarify that Mr. Ukki was a gift Naruto gave Kakashi while Naruto was a genin, so Kakashi hasn’t had it for very long.

My first thought was that Gai got his sunflower recently too as a way to compete with Kakashi, but then again, wasn’t Himawari (Sunflower) named that way because Neji liked sunflowers? 

Gai’s apartment is very spartan but otherwise unexpectedly plain. Exercise equipment and weights scattered everywhere. 

He has some books, photos ,and a plant by the window like Kakashi’s room does, but in true Gai fashion, his is a sunflower. One of the photos is probably team Gai, so I guess the other might be Team Choza or maybe Duy.

He has a Konoha spiral flag hanging up on his wall, pretty simple bed sheets, random papers on his wall, a scroll that says something. 

This is like, the opposite of that horrible trope of someone hearing people talk behind their back out of context and hear something horrible

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