#anbu

Imagine you’re all but bred in a lab, then forced to fight for this man who says you’re fighting for this village as a whole. Except you’re almost entirely isolated and this village doesn’t know of your existence, let alone name.

The man orders you to infiltrate this OTHER shadow organization, and eventually kill this other guy who is known as “friend killer”. You’re extremely powerful, and expect to take him down easily. Instead, he beats you and takes you under his wing??? Doesn’t kill you??? Even though, from reports, killing is pretty much all he does????????

So then you’re like. “Okay, I owe my loyalty to him now.” And that’s how it stays from then on. But you quickly realize that his world is an entirely different thing than yours. He’s just battling chakra monsters on the regular. You’re doing actual ninja shit while he’s trolling this entire idiotic village (you’re still not sure why he’s allowed to do half the shit he does) carrying around an inappropriate book and failing students left and right. Also, the village at large seems to think him a lazy idiot. Your captain, who saved you and is one of the few that has earned both your respect and fear, is known as “that guy with the porn book”. It’s like only knowing Percy Jackson on the battlefield and then seeing him at Camp Half-Blood, teased and jerked around by kids half his age. You’re watching people roll their eyes at him or say slightly treasonous shit and you’re internally thinking “he’s killed people for less”. But then he lets Maito Gai hang off his shoulders and he dresses up as some dunce named Sukea and at this point you’re wondering if ANBU kakashi was the farce

Then, you’re put onto a big mission. You’re filling in for your former captain, and taking over as his students’ sensei. Only, come to find out, one of those students dipped, so guess what? You get to relive your childhood trauma through some dumbass kid who reminds you FAR too much of yourself. This dumbass kid endlessly antagonizes his teammates, but somehow his teammates are worse????? If you hadn’t learned a little more about human relations in the past few years, you would’ve assumed they were grieving a dead spouse with how they moped around and spoke of nothing but this “Sasuke” kid who, as far as you were informed, was some loser who defected due to an inferiority complex.

This is only the BEGINNING of your troubles because, come to find out, your former captain has been wrangling two POWERHOUSES with the emotional stability and overall sanity of FEILD MICE in the middle of HARVEST SEASON. One of them is regularly turning into the fucking DEMON FOX (which you’re pretty sure killed his dad??? Did this child kill his dad???? Kakashi, please answer the fucking phone) and the other one seems to have some sort of personality disorder (Kakashi. Will she kill me. What is the actual danger. Can I sleep. What is the threat level. Please pick up the fucking phone) and both of them are strong as hell. As in, level mountains during casual training strong.

Tbf, it's mostly Tenzo and Itachi projecting the lost duck energy, but Shisui also delights in being there. So it's like,

Itachi and Tenzo: Genuinely trailing behind Kakashi like lost puppies.

Shisui: Trailing behind Itachi and Tenzo projecting the same aura but mostly because he thinks this is the funniest thing ever

Kakashi: Denying to his dying breath that these guys are wet eyed ducklings trailing behind him like he's their mother (except Shisui, who he will occasionally acknowledge the behavior of only because he KNOWS Shisui is doing it to fuck with him. However he knows the other two are serious about it and will thus refuse to admit this is his reality ever.)

I think when they hang out or train out of masks together, it's in secluded or private places (probably in compliance with whatever ANBU privacy/subtlety rules have to exist about what context teams can hang out together under) So very few people have the proper context of seeing them all together. Especially bc, during this time, Kakashi is in that 16-18 year old doom spiral. He's starting to ease out of the depression, but his title of Friend Killer Kakashi still follows him, and he works overtime to avoid people and crowds.

So anyways that means no one really knows ab his little entourage, which means funny realization moments when people DO see them in public together.

(Someone remind me later to do a '5 times someone realized Kakashi had become a teen mother + 1 time Kakashi realized himself' fic later, that'd be so fucking funny)

The only one to be fully aware of Kakashi's little ducklings is Gai, who's been lucky enough to spot them all together more than once (mostly bc he's one of the only people Kakashi will willingly exist around for more than 10 minutes at a time when out of uniform) Otherwise, there's a handful of people who know of team Ro's attitude towards KKS (separately) Like Genma (subject to Shisui and Tenzo) and Kurenai (subject to Itachi)

"Kakashi," Kurenai asked. "Why are you hanging out with a toddler?"

Kakashi cocked his head. "I don't know. Itachi, why am I hanging out with a toddler?"

"Mother asked you to give me advice on working with my elder teammates." Itachi responded without missing a beat, and Kakashi nodded in approval.

"There you have it."

In general, I think Kakashi is probably spotted with Tenzo the most out of anyone on the team. He's like, basically his handler once he's out of ROOT, very invested in his personhood and general existence for several (political and personal) reasons, and has taken to trying to teach him how to be a real boy and whatnot now that he's in the real world. They're also close in age, and unlike Shisui (who's also close in age), Tenzo is very quiet and genuine in his respect for Kakashi. So Kakashi can genuinely just enjoy existing near Tenzo in silence without worry.

Tenzo is probably the lowkey favorite, which Itachi and Shisui are NOT bitter about, they promise.

(Shisui is actually p ok w that, he thinks Tenzo deserves it after all the shit he's been through and is happy for the clear comfort Kakashi brings to his life.

Itachi refuses to admit he's jealous ever, but years later when he is an actual, literal terrorist who hasn't seen his teammates in years, when he sees Tenzo again, he will hit him extra hard w a genjutsu special with a vague sense of satisfaction and the specific thoughts of, 'being captains favorite won't save you now, will it.')

Anyways the entire point of this post was that I want someone (possibly Genma) to refer to the members of team ro as "Kakashi's ducklings" because it'd would be funny to me personally.

SasuSaku as ANBU.

Inspired by several fanfics that I'll put the link below, but I made my own version.

1. Soft Place To Fall by Alicestka

2. Satellite by bloodveinsgenes

3. The Sun Goes With You by cloverhoney

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