#hatake tetsuo

Happy new years ✨️

For some reason, upon reading this part;

I think a funny note is that, as Tetsuo actually doesn't curse very often? If at all. While a lot of my ocs do (mostly because I cuss a ton lmao) he's one of the ones that specifically doesn't. The only times you'll ever see him really curse is like:

- in the privacy of his own mind

- when taken extremely off guard

- when in a REALLY bad mood.

- when drunk

I immediately had the vivid image of Tetsuo having a child literally dropped into his arms from like the sky, just popping into existence and falling into his lap, and going what the fuck????

First off- Kakashi. Holy shit Kakashi. Last surviving member of your clan, and then suddenly you've accidentally freed two members you didn't even know existed on what was an A-Rank hell of a C-rank mission, that alone would be enough for a shock. Imagining later he learns that Tetsuo specifically was supposed to be the one to take care of Sakumo, but he (pretty much, from Kakashi's pov possibly) abandoned that and got trapped in Spiral Demon Purgatory™️for fucking decades with his toxic yaoi situationship? I think he'd be torn between punching him for abandoning his dad and respecting that he refused to abandon Tsuki (assuming he doesn't, yknow, punch Tetsuo the instant he learns that)

And on the flipside TETSUO. Holy shit Tetsuo. You leave on a mission with one of your last surviving clansmen to the place you lost him the first time. You get trapped in Spiral Demon Purgatory™️. You come out, and see the spitting image of Haruka. Surely, this is Sakumo, right? You already know time behaves strangely There, so you know you've been gone longer than you know. But no. That's not Sakumo. That's Sakumo's son. You've been gone so long that Sakumo had a son. That son is grown up. And at some point, you probably learn that Sakumo killed himself. You're torn. On one hand, you were able to save Tsuki in the end, but on the other... what if you'd actually been there for Sakumo, like you'd promised? Would you have been able to change anything? His son looks like he wants to punch you, and you can't blame him.

Also, Naruto and Tsuki.

As established, Tsuki is delighted by the jinchūriki, in a very "Can't wait for this to blow up! Actually, I can! Let me grab popcorn!!!" kind of way. Hell, with his connection to The Spiral, being an amalgam of that and who he was before, he can probably sense in some way what the sealing of the Bijuu has done to all the yokai (whether they're gone or just in hiding because what the fuck you horrific humans) and throwing nature out of wack, just like he told Mito. And here's Naruto, the third jinchūriki of the Kyuubi. he's probably poking at this 12-year old "ticking time bomb" and back to harassing Kurama

(Tsuki: Wow! You're still stuck inside a human? Loooseeerr~~~~~~!) (Kurama: FUCK OFF!!! GO BACK TO YOUR OCEAN ASSHOLE!!!)

And from Naruto's perspective, this is pre-chuunin exams which means that Tsuki is the first person remotely like him that he's ever met. And Tsuki is completely... unbothered by it all. Unbothered by him. By the fox inside him. Is probably very weirded out when Tsuki crouches to his stomach and starts talking at the fox, but it also might spark the idea of, "wait, is the fox someone I can talk to?" Who knows? Regardless, I can't decide if I think he'd be very put off by how unbothered Tsuki is by it all (especially since he's in a similar situation, ish) or want to also be unbothered by being the container for a demon, because it doesn't seem to be giving him any problems (I mean, I'm sure it does give Tsuki some problems, mainly that he's crazy and is always hearing that call of the ocean, but like. Naruto's 12)

I don't really have that many ideas for the others, unfortunately. Idk, maybe Sakura can like, look between Tsuki and Tetsuo thinking "Toxic Yaoi🏳️‍🌈?" Maybe in a "Shikamaru Yaoi Author" crossover she can go "Sensei's family was filled with Toxic Yaoi🏳️‍🌈?" Idk I was trying to keep this serious

!!! OMG HI OK SO YOU SENT THIS TO ME LIKE. A WHILE AGO NOW. AND I PHYSICALLY COULDN'T READ IT BECAUSE I KEPT GETTING SO EXCITED AT THE MERE PROSPECT THAT SOMEONE HAD ACTUALLY THOUGHT ABOUT AND WRITTEN A TSUKI AND TETSUO ESCAPE THE SPIRAL AND MEET TEAM 7 POST THAT I COULDNT SIT STILL ENOUGH TO READ IT? IF THAT MAKES SENSE?

SHFBSID sorry, sometimes when i get too excited about things it becomes harder to read bc i keep trying to speed read it and the words blur together a bit. So I tried to set my phone down to give myself time to calm down but I kept GETTING excited about it and then it kind of got buried by like 60 other asks and also stuff blew up in my life again so I kinda forgor 😔

BUT. ALL OF THAT IS TO SAY OH MY GOD I LOVE ???? THIS????????? LIKE I WAS AND STILL AM TOTALLY FREAKING THE HELL OUT RN, OH MY GOD???? WHEN I TELL YOU I SCREAMED WHEN I FIRST SAW YOUD SENT THIS??? IM SO SORRY FOR TAKING FOREVER TO REPLY TO THIS BC ITS AMAZING AND IM NGL IM DISAPPOINTED IN MYSELF BC THIS TOTALLY REQUIRES MY FULL AND IMMEDIATE ATTENTION BC !!!!!!!! HOLY SHIT !!!!!!!

Ok so like, right off the bat: love this. Love this so much. Also it amuses me immensely that you sent this before I fr posted ab my own thoughts of them escaping the spiral but you were dead on the mark ab a lot of little things

The Kakashi and Tetsuo dynamic has the potential to go so hard,,, there's so many layers to it in so many ways and I'm a little bit obsessed with it. Idk what to even put here bc ur so dead on about their dynamic— it's so messy on so many levels, and at its heart you have these two men with insane, custom built guilt complexes and a near suicidal loyalty to some person or ideal. And also we are directly aiming the guilt complexes at each other and pulling the trigger.

I imagine that Kakashi can see that in Tetsuo— the blind, all consuming loyalty, something he can respect as a Konoha shinobi. And that acknowledgement must make everything just so much messier when it comes to Sakumo and what might have been if Tetsuo had only stayed,,,

I am picturing them both individually having this whole thought process of "what if" as they imagine how life might have gone if Tetsuo had stayed. He'd have raised Sakumo in Haruka's stead, of course, probably have kept the Hatake clan's seat at the clan head table, and if he'd survived long enough he'd certainly have had a hand in raising Kakashi himself as some form of grandfatherly figure. I'd love to see them share some sort of discussion about that world,,,

(And side note, that could make a very fun au too,,,, Tsuki and Tetsuo raise Sakumo and/or Kakashi when?)

LOVE the conflict of Kakashi not knowing whether he should punch this guy for abandoning his father or not. But also rip Tetsuo he would have come back if he could but he couldn't give up Tsuki </3 He couldn't fail him again </3

I am definitely picturing some crazy projection on Kakashi's end as he unknowingly equates Tetsuo leaving his father behind to try and save Tsuki with Sakumo leaving Kakashi behind via suicide. This is going to rip open SO many old scars and hang ups that Kakashi thought he got through, Im sure.

I think I'd love to see Tetsuo witness Kakashi in battle and just. Him being so proud of him. He's going to tell Kakashi— totally stone faced and serious voiced, as he tends to be —how spectacular his fighting was and how his grandmother would weep with joy to know her grandson could inflict such terror on a battlefield.

Kakashi, meanwhile, begins to feel increasingly awkward at this straight faced, very serious, very genuine praise. I don't think he takes genuine praise well in general (particularly when it's for smthn he thinks is underserved/normal levels of skill) and I imagine he'd accept it with even less grace than usual from his long dead ancestors telling him he makes his (very dead) clan proud

TSUKI AND KURAMA INTERACTION IS SO REAL PLS IM GIGGLING SO HARD RN, YOU REALLY PUT IT PERFECTLY

Tsuki is both delighted and horrified to learn that the fox is still trapped— and in a kid no less???? Amazing. Incredible. It makes him a little sick to think about tbh (he did NOT think they'd get this far before Kurama escaped) but he's too busy laughing about it to really make note of it.

I'm ngl you make me wanna think more ab Tsuki and Kurama— what a strange dynamic. They're different kind of yokai, and biiju rank above the type of yokai the spiral is, though that's not even considering what the fuck Tsuki counts as. Some strange in-between, I think? At this point too, after escaping the spiral twice and taking the rest of the spiral with him the second time, he's definitely more yokai than human. He might be another new, strange thing tbh, but no one ask me what

I wonder if Tsuki knows Kurama's name. I don't think he would— while the Spiral might have had the chance to know it in the past, it was never the type of yokai to use proper thought and language, so it would have no reason to have that knowledge even if it was directly given it (which I doubt it ever was) Once Kurama was sealed in Mito, he definitely interacted with Tsuki, but I both doubt Kurama would offer his name and dont think Tsuki would care enough to ask it. I imagine they address each other as just "Fox" and "Spiral"

Idk but I'm intrigued by the very strange yokai solidarity thing where neither really does anything to help each other out but sometimes they give each other the "you seeing this shit?" side eye. I'd be interested in exploring whatever the hell is happening over there someday tbh; And the world at large should be grateful Tsuki continues to be leashed by Tetsuo, or else he might actually try and free Kurama purely just because (but quietly maybe out of some strange yokai solidarity/righting the balance in the world, or Hatake hatred for chains)

Tbh, if it were only Tsuki here and not Tetsuo, I can see Tsuki trying to free Kurama as a sort of "fuck you I do what I want and don't got anything left going for me 👍" Especially if Tsuki's alone bc his clans all legit dead— He is for sure the type to go off the deep end and swing between doing wild shit just to make himself feel something (like kidnapping Naruto and freeing the demon fox "just because") and like. Staring at a wall for 48 hours while he slowly atrophies.

Depressed Tsuki would NOT a very stable or sane man. Someone get this guy some extra strength mood stabilizer please

Sorry, getting off topic, anyways:

NARUTO AND TSUKI !!! I really like thinking about them— there's some seriously fascinating potential there on quite a few levels. The most obvious being, ofc, their statuses as something not quite human due to the demon inside them (even if both their demons and the methods of their containment/enmeshment are wildly different)

I really like the idea of Naruto just assuming Tsuki is like him, a proper jinchuriki, seal and all, and Tsuki just. Not really caring enough to correct him— or only correcting him later down the line when he realizes the mistake. I don't think the finer details would matter to Naruto, all he really hears is "woah, he's like me" and that's all he needs to know

The fact that Tsuki is this charming, friendly, grown man who is clearly incredibly comfortable both with himself and with Naruto's status (AND with Kurama himself!!) Who appears in some cool battle with his equally mysterious clanmate— and they're also both Kakashi's long lost relatives who love him soooo much and they're super sorry they weren't here for him and they promise not to leave now—

Yeah, I imagine that all just makes it so much easier for Naruto to imprint on Tsuki. Even discounting the last bit, like. Cool adult who clearly knows what's happening, who has the same 'affliction' as Naruto and is not only cool about it but lowkey cool and powerful because of it— yeah that's gonna be a critical hit, let's be honest.

Plus Tsuki would probably lock onto Naruto pretty fucking fast and Naruto, to me at least, seems like the kind of kid who'd go insane at being someones (especially an adult figure) special little guy and clear favorite. Especially since we're only at Wave arc, so I think his only experience is maybe Iruka but only very recently. He is still PRIMED to imprint on the wrong adult lmao

(idk if Tsuki is the wrong adult but he's certainly. A choice.)

Anywho, if you want to play this straight and dive into some interesting conversations; Depending on your own interpretations of Naruto and how he views gender (yes I'm talking about the sexy no jutsu, of which I have Opinions) you could get a frankly fascinating little arc where he learns gender fluid people (read: Tsuki), like, exist.

In general I think Naruto and Tsuki could hold an interesting conversation about gender, and Tsuki could totally encourage smthn in him about it— especially when Naruto no doubt would look at him as that signature 'cool trusted adult and friend' figure

Tsuki in general I think would encourage Naruto to cause problems on purpose and be a general menace. Which is not at all what he needs, but I do undoubtedly think Naruto would also go insane (in a good way) to be encouraged in these departments. Tetsuo will apologize and do his best to help reverse the effect Tsuki might have on Naruto but I fear he might already be too late, rip !!

Tsuki also ofc has the motivation to be interested in Naruto bc Uzumaki! I think in general, both Tsuki, the individual), and the spiral itself feel a very complex web of emotion and vague duty towards the Uzumaki. The spiral especially, considered the Uzumaki its own in some abstract way, and that does impact Tsuki's own views of them. So in this new era, where they're mostly all gone, I can definitely see Tsuki going out of his way to help an Uzumaki out of a very strange sense of duty that even he himself doesn't know the origin of.

Also SAKURA AND SASUKE !!! they are having a time, I'm sure. Sakura is absoloutley DELIGHTING in all the drama happening around her— this is better than any novel she could think of!!! The drama!! The passion!! The tragedy!!

Sakura is nodding very seriously, doing her best to look solemn as she learns the Truth(tm) about Tetsuo leaving Sakumo behind and Kakashi's past and The Spiral and all of it— but meanwhile in her head she's squee-ing so loud and fangirling so hard because !!!! OMG SENSEI'S LONG LOST (HOMO?) ANCESTORS WHO WERE TRAPPED IN TIME (!!!!!!!!!?????) BUT SWOOPED IN TO RESCUE US AND NOW THEY'RE BEGGING FOR SENSEI'S FORGIVENESS AND THEYRE GONNA COME BACK TO KONOHA AND—!!!!!!!!!

Meanwhile Sasuke is having. A time. The time, even. The Time Most Ever.

Long story short, Sasuke is projecting and projecting HARD. He is living so vicariously through Kakashi, quietly wishing that this would happen to him, and being mad when Kakashi doesn't immediatley accept them into his life. Long lost ancestors kept away from him by powers out of their control... Coming back with apologies and wishes that they'd been there... Promises that things can be better now... IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SASUKE!!!!!!!!!!

The good news for him is that I do very much think that Tetsuo would single him out to be fond of. Tetsuo has always had an affinity for hard to handle people— doubly so for children, and Sasuke is hitting SO many of his weak points for misfit children he wants to put his pocket

Sakura can continue to be Kakashi's special little guy, to even out the favorites. Tho I do also think Tsuki would be especially fond of her. Tsuki's gonna need new clothes after getting spat out by the spiral and YES this man would go straight to the 13 year old little girl to ask what she'd reccomend and YES he would willingly subject himself to letting her dress him up. He'd delight in it, even

(it'd also lowkey be good for him, I think. tsuki rn is not at his mental best and probably slightly high in both power and mind on finally becoming One with The Spiral. And also running on fumes from the whole 'playing tug of war with his body for a good few decades'. And also still reeling from his whole clan being dead. And also the Uzumaki being dead. And also the Senju being dead. And also the Uchiha being dead. And also the— You get the idea.)

Anywho!! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR YOUR ASK!!!! IT WAS AMAZING AND INCREDIBLE AND IM GIVING U THE BIGGEST KISS RIGHT ON UR BRAIN RN !!!!!

Personality/behavior swapped tetsou and tsuki