#hcxnaruto

Grian could feel the slime.

“Grian? What’s going on?”

The paper he was holding was promptly crushed.

“It’s that ninja, Mumbo,” he seethed. “He’s got to be dealt with.”

Scene from You Can't Take It Back by @ironstakes

this is what happened right

@azzayofchaos's Kakashi design lives in my head rent free now so it has manifested in my doodles, go long gloves go

The "wake up" part in the End poem makes a scene pop up in my head where they're trying to revive him, reciting the near end part of the poem, where he is loved by the universe, that he is daylight, that all that he needs is within himself, that he can begin anew. Wake up.

Idk that just popped into my brain cuz I couldn't stop thinking about your HCxNaruto fic. I keep rereading it cuz it's just so fun.

Alrighty, I'm assuming you are the same anon- I promise I'll get to the other pending ask but this one driving me crazy. This idea has been looping in my head for days now. This is so. Good. I cannot focus on the other points as this one is eating all my brain space. Maybe they revive Gyusha? I could see it happening as a one shot!

So many eldritch-god-beyond vibes-! And we love those.

"And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love. You are the player. Wake up."

You are the player?? Maybe players can be created instead of spawning in? This entire idea is driving me absolutely insane in an excellent way.

I just imagine an image that is dark, so dark, and there are the hermit's eerie eyes hovering around like they are standing above the viewer with the words "wake up" in the center. Reciting the poem is so excellent. Thank you so much for sharing this with me, this idea is incredible. I adore it!

Kakashi walks in on Mumbo using his sharingan to cast a genjutsu on True. He promptly freaks out. Everyone is baffled. 

Kakashi checked that the rocks were in place one last time, then gently lowered the last piece onto the structure. 

Nothing happened.

He wasn’t surprised. Never in all his years had he heard of a summoning quite like this one, and honestly, he wondered why he’d even attempted it.

On the other hand, the phantoms didn’t follow any summoning conventions.

Then, he had an epiphany. The picture showed the structure of the cursed sands, which were clearly block shaped. But the skulls also seemed alined on invisible axises, perfectly matching up with the book inventory system.

For some reason, this summoning needed the unique properties applied to objects that entered the system.

The minecart wasn’t that bad. Clonekashi has no idea if that was because of some weird property, like the goop water, or if it was because he was a clone. 

The… thing? Entity? The being that went by Cleo had trapped him, but had otherwise left him alone in the cart. It had prodded one of the creatures in the cages, somehow adding several limbs and a tail to what had previously been a bipedal worm like abomination, for several hours that stretched into a handful of days before vanishing from the lab for a prolonged period of time.

1) Based on the timeline, Kakashi is about 23 years old, which means that, if we follow the anime's timeline, there are suddenly new reasons why Kakashi would stop being an ANBU that year, lol.

2) TFC is a Hyūga, and probably one of the secondary branch. If this is the case, did Xisuma remove his seal? I think the seal was capable of destroying the Byakugan from a distance to prevent the eye-stealing so beloved among ninjas. A younger brother of Hiashi and Hizashi? Probably a cousin. But his "disappearance/kidnapping" (depending on which story his clan gives) puts a new spin on Hinata's kidnapping and Hizashi's sacrifice.

3) Doggies! I can't wait for Kakashi to show his ninken to the Hermits! It'd be like:

Hermit: Are you telling me I could summon an animal to help me find (insert plant)?!

Kakashi: …You could do that with a regular animal.

Hermit: Yeah, but they can't understand my jokes :c

Speaking of the ninken, I hope they don't get considered Mobs like the clones did. If they do, I hope they don't catch Cleo's attention. Although, well, would Cleo be capable of hurting a puppy with such soft paws? Ah, speaking of clones.

4) Kakashi goes to sleep after his world turns upside down for the 373,827th time.

Kakashi, almost jumping out of bed: And my clones?!

5) When Kakashi and his siblings return from the Nether, I can't help but think about the interactions he'll inevitably witness. For comedic value, sure, but also because it's not impossible to think that Etho probably has a mark on all of Inja no Machi. "Oh, that door? Etho created that!" "Yeah, only Etho understands how this thing works." "Etho helped me create this whole system, isn't that great?" Basically, Tango and Doc in chapter 14, multiplied by a hundred. And with that, comes the heartbreaking realization that this is Etho's home. Inja no Machi is to Etho what Konoha is to Kakashi. It would be so sad, because Kakashi only knows how to live as a weapon for his village. How can he fulfill his role as a brother when he barely remembers what it was like to be someone's son?

6) On a different note, how long will it be before Konoha starts wondering about Kakashi's whereabouts? Because when you're a renowned ninja, your cause of death isn't falling into a ravine and breaking your neck; someone must have killed you, obviously. I'm imagining something like:

Kakashi, two months after leaving the village: Hokage-sama, I've come to make my report.

Hiruzen, who was half an hour away from declaring him dead and starting an investigation into his murder at the hands of an enemy village, inevitably causing a war: Ah, Hatake, I was about to start getting worried.

Hello previous anon! Welcome back and please, feel free to write as your heart desires! I do take longer to reply to longer asks, but that’s because I write a lot too and get distracted  :P

And I apologize for the delay Q-Q

1- About 23- you are correct! He’s 25 in YCTiB. According to everything I could find he’s 26 when the Naruto series starts. Kakashi leaving ANBU is going to be a full circus in my fic. In canon his friends approach the hokage and are like “hey, Kakashi is Not Okay TM” and the hokage is like “damn, you right” so Kakashi gets genin duty (he fails a few teams before he gets the canon team) and this ask made me realize that I screwed the timeline bc he should be out of ANBU already…

2- If you don’t mind spoilers… yes, this is the case! Xisuma probably didn’t remove the seal, I figure TFC may have done it himself (he did more automation in mc than I can manage, he’s a tech player… I kind of want to translate that to some sealing skill) and I was also thinking about having Mumbo or Beef + Doc/Cleo do it. Mumbo is already associated with enchanting and cursing so he is an option, and alternatively, Beef could use his clan’s technique to make a copy of TFC’s head and have Doc and or Cleo swap his sealed head out for the new one (Beef is the source of heads in this hardcore world).

The Hyuga kidnapping plot thickens :>

Sounds like an excellent side story tbh- I really like the idea! Neji and TFC would have some interesting interactions…

3- Summons are meant to come up soon. I’m rewriting a chapter atm so I’m not 100% sure they’ll stay in, but they are intended to appear. I will warn that they’ll be seen like a tamed mob /villager mix by the hermits, like someone’s cat but a bit more complex. Luckily for them Cleo won’t take notice, she’s rather occupied (for better or for worse).

asfahajajk “they don’t get my jokes :c” THIS and the find plants *perfect*

4- He has a “wait…”  about the missing clones soon, and funnily enough it is while he’s trying to get some sleep. I just can’t decide if he has this epiphany whilst Tango snores and drools on him or if that’d be too much XD 

5- :)

Kakashi is 100% self conscious about being a good family member Q-Q

6- Hard to say! I imagine that sometimes people can go for a while without contact. I think people put the wave arc in timeframes ranging from a few days to a few months. I’ll admit I got super side tracked at this section and was looking up and reading different timeline ideas/canon events to figure something out, but I’ve forgotten where I was going with this. Kakashi will have to go back to Konoha soon-ish, but from the YCTiB timeline he’s been gone a little more than a week (I think) so we have plenty of time!

I enjoyed the anecdotal ending segment