I read a kakaobi fic yesterday... OMG.
for love of a boy by revecake. Based on Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves. One word: masterful.
My art does not depict a specific scene from the fic, it's just something inspired by its mood! Obito's appearance is not fully fic-compliant.
Just look at these various quotes:
from the water, kakashi rises and rests his arms on the edge. a tilt of his head, his wet hair falls, pooling silver on obito’s boat, and when obito looks, looks with a certain haze across his eyes, kakashi becomes the mystical half-fish of his dreams.
kakashi smiles, and the plain beauty of his naked face is perfectly real. “it’s a good catch today, isn’t it?”
“kakashi-kun?” his father laughs, an exasperated turn of his brow. he continues to trace his blade under the skin of tuna, and another piece of flesh comes butterfly-free, as light and pink as a sakura petal floated from the island’s schoolyard to the sea.
the rain blurs for a moment, and the sight through the dripping leaves is akin to a sheen of sun being thrown from the sky. dazzling, a celestial maiden’s robe has been haphazardly tossed from the heavens to be muddied as a damp blessing across the fresh ground.
when he’s finished, the only curtain to his nudity are the wet clothes draped and swinging from the window pane.
they balloon and deflate in the imitation of a body in the wind, but as obito rises, stretches, strides towards the bedroom, the shape of his shoulders and back leaves a solid impression through the wet glass. he doesn’t need to wash, not when the sun has already bathed the lean lines of him in dry heat.
dreams are only fading things, passing on waves, caught in the wind, melted into dew by the morning.
obito looks up at that pale face, and what he sees - he wraps his hands around kakashi’s wrists to keep him there.
how can he say this?
how does he give language to his desire, how does he make kakashi understand his earnesty in this very moment?
he cannot let it become an untranslatable disappearance, as so many dear things are, have been lost to sea.
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I don’t understand why Kishimoto never added Kakashi having thoughts about Gai when he died in the pain assault. It’s like he doesn’t want his relationship with Gai to have depth but then adds all these interactions and feelings that show how much he means to Kakashi.
He thinks of his dead friends and family, he thinks of Konoha 11, but he doesn’t think about his longest and biggest support? Not even a passing thought?
Might Gai is Kakashi’s best friend and rival, he isn’t a nuisance to him and he doesn’t think he’s less than him. Their relationship has substance and evidence to show how much they care about one another, im sick of Kishimoto and his constant need to diminish it then prop it up and then diminish it again. How can he be so inconsistent with relationships and character writing??
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the longer i sit with it the more it really gets me how nobody ever really mentions obito and rin before obito's reveal in shippuden. kakashi vaguely mentions his old friends and i think other characters allude to the tragedy of kakashi's past but rin and obito themselves are lost to time. something about that is so fucking haunting and so gutting. you would think it would be a pretty big deal that two kids from the same class died within a year of each other, but the nine tails attack probably wiped so much clean that nobody could really carry the grief... still, when we see their class in flashbacks, we recognise almost everyone else, so... there's something really sad and hopeless about their absence...
there's a lot a LOT to say about it from a lot of different angles and i don't really feel like going into meta posting territory i just have big feelings about it you know? and to me i guess obito encapsulates a lot of the anger. for the people who get left behind and forgotten. and that can mean a lot of things
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Naruto shippuden things that made me lose my mind (ep 244-260):
Dark naruto my beloved 🖤 (I wish naruto could externalize these thoughts to someone else and they could comfort him so he wouldn't have to comfort himself)
Kushina @ naruto: wow minato didn't tell u shit
There's something very... unsettling? To me about minato. I think maybe it's just bc bad writing but something feeling deeply wrong about him?
Child itachi: don't worry, sasuke, I'll protect u (I think they're framing this as a sweet moment but it just feels sad and fucked up and sinister bc itachi u literally r going to create a monster. Like u meant well in ur own fucked logic but u hurt him so so bad)
Kushina, dying: naruto, stay the fuck away from lord jiraiya
Kisame, confronting his impending doom: I choose death by shark attack
Tobi, on his way out the door to murder someone and desecrate a corpse: kabuto don't do anything fucked up while I'm gone
I can't take Kabuto seriously in that snake hoodie???
In Madara secret hide out of horrors he has a chamber of eyeballs, a mutieyed beast that sucks the souls from jinchuriki, 100,000 lil white soldiers, and the petrified remains of hashirama. What a fucking place to live.
Everytime we find a new character with part of hashirama in them, it only gets funnier
Spend 20 episodes traveling to keep naruto safe then just fucking instantly their position is compromised lmao
I would like everyone to stop lying to naruto, please
Yamatoooooo in the belly of a snake :'(((
7yr old naruto: what were my parents like? The 3rd hokage: fuck off. Bye.
The writers: what if we reanimated the original Naruto but gave kakashi smaller hair?
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Okay, okay, okay.... but!
body swap + gen swap AU
I would just get a kick out of Madara purposefully antagonising all of Obito's friends while he's inside Obito's body.
That jealous streak is suddenly showing when all these people get so "overly friendly" and "touchy-feely" with him.
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“To fight for the pride of family, for friends when all they do is hold you back from completing your duty is pathetic.” Kakashi stood up, and Obito then noticed his side of the shrine was already spotless. “Shinobi who place comrades over the mission, pride over the mission, will be the first to die.”
“Kakashi!” Rin had a strained yet somewhat puzzled expression on her face. “Surely, that’s going too far?”
Obito was too stricken to respond at first but his shock was soon replaced with righteous, defensive anger. “How could you say that? It’s the people around me who have helped me be who I am today! Being a shinobi isn’t all about duty. Are you heartless? Do you even have any family you actually love?”
Obito expected a malicious rebuttal from Kakashi, laced with poisonous intent. Instead, he met grey eyes clouded with tears. There was a feral edge to the way Kakashi staggered back, feet swaying and arms hanging loosely from his body. Those eyes, despite its mistiness, held a bottomless, fathomless rage. Yet, weirdly enough, Obito felt it wasn’t entirely directed at him. Still, his heart thumped wildly in anticipation and dread. He knew he had gone too far.
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